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Old 09-07-2007, 01:39 PM   #384
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Re: What does "Free" Mean?

Yes, I stopped actively arguing against it but the 4 box proposal is still very incomplete in my opinion. Threshold's objections tend to ring true for me.

I could have a two-checkbox system saying, "Does your country vote for its president" and we could classify every country in the world into these two simple categories, but it would completely fail to reflect useful information since what it means to vote for a president varies so massively from country to country. In some countries you are forced to vote (and you better vote for the correct candidate too), which is why some dictatorships call themselves democracies. In some countries, there's the appearance of voting for President (like the US) when in fact you're voting for the electoral college.

It's pretty muddy ground in other words.

--matt
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