• NAXLAB@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    A lot of those tests have already been done and were used almost exclusively to enforce segregation.

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      To be fair, literally anything can, will be or probably has already been used to enforce discrimination or segregation somewhere in the world. We won’t get anywhere living in fear of bigots.

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      1 year ago

      Which why there has to be strict oversight to prevent that from happening.

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          1 year ago

          Your new government, presumably.

          Though if you can’t trust it to faithfully enforce its laws, why have it? Or any government, for that matter?

          Like, you can take the fear of discrimination to justify not having anything

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            1 year ago

            You cannot trust a government to routinely create arbitrary standards used to regulate that same government.

            This is different from a government enforcing your average law because this law applies to the election process itself and allows for significant bias. Where there is room for bias in this process, it will be taken advantage of. Look at gerrymandering.

            What problem does your law actually solve? If people are willing to elect a candidate, isn’t that a sufficient measure of competency? At best you’re creating an elitist state controlled by those who set the bar for competency, and at worst you’re creating a one party state.

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              Then you can’t have any government, or really, any meaningful social interaction.

              All democratic governments are built on the assumption they’ll be acted upon in good faith, because without good faith, no cooperation or society is possible. All a society is is a group of people either working together in good faith.

              If you want to go off and live by the law of the jungle, then by all means, go ahead. But the rest of us will move on without you.