[Freeciv-Dev] Re: [freeciv-data] Re: Why fascism is bad but not communism (was Re: New Nazi cityset attached...)

[Tomasz Wegrzanowski <maniek@xxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 07:26:41PM -0400, Dmitriy Genzel wrote:
> Moreover, you should listen to reasons of one person as much as to reasons
> of a group, but that does not mean that it carries the same weight. By the
> way, here's a proposal for yet another (probably useless) sort of
> government, similar to Rzech Pospolita (sp?), i.e. Poland, of 16-18
> century. There all decisions in parliament had to be unanimous. I do not
> think many people think it really worked out very well, though:) It only
> took one person to block anything. That's why democarcy involves majority
> decisions, not unanimous ones.

spelling = Rzeczpospolita
Name is mere translation of latin Respublica.

In 16th century is worked very well, and one person never really blocked
parliament's decisions, but minorities often did.

That's why there was a lot of religious tolerance in Poland, while the rest of
Europe, with decisions made by either king or majority, who allways decided
for one or another religion, was fighting bloody holy wars against each other.