Naftali and Abraham World History August 30th, 2016 Chapter 1 Essay If I had the chance to install a democratic rule, and my population wasn’t the brightest, I would choose a representative democracy over a direct democracy. The first argument for this revolves around the idea that no group of people, particularly a nation of millions, are so smart that they will understand everything they need to know in order to make important decisions. We have to recognize that the average person isn’t going to understand every political problem there is and will just vote on things randomly. One could argue that we could just educate everyone on the issue, however it’s hard to imagine that we would have the time and the resources to do this, especially when a decision is needed right away. Over the course of a day, many of the people in authority can make decisions that require quick thinking to solve a problem. This fast decision making would not be possible if everyone had to vote on it, something which …show more content…
As mentioned previously, the nation is not the brightest, so we have to assume that letting the nation make all the important decisions would not be the best idea. The only way to prevent the nation from crumbling due to bad decisions would be to nudge everyone into making good ones. On the surface, this concept of using nudges sounds like a great idea because we would always be make good decisions, but there are two problems with that. One, we can’t assume that the decisions made by the people who are instituting these nudging are always going to make the best decision. Even if they are the smartest people in the world, they are still human and will still make mistakes. Second, we can’t assume that nudges will always work. They are simply an attempt to influence people’s decisions. They are by no means a guarantee to work and we have to accept