BLOG #4: Deliberative Democracy
What is deliberative democracy?
Deliberative democracy basically entails the exercise of freedom of speech through an exchange of arguments in which those arguments were carefully formed. Other than that, deliberative democracy focuses more on the process than the outcome
Main assumption
The main assumption in deliberative democracy is that people are rational and there’s reason instead of self-interest. The problem however is that it is an ‘ideal’ which is, in simple terms, hard to attain because not everyone is rational. This can be because they’re arguments are baseless conjectures and often driven by emotions. Another reason revolves around privileges. This means that there are those that are not privileged enough to attain education or information in which they could form a ‘rational’ argument.
For thoughts:
The majority may think that a certain political decision is for the ‘common good’, but some decisions by the majority may not exactly be for the ‘common good’; the minorities may think differently.
