The Seattle Times - Video-game industry not to blame for gun violence.
Just like any other form of entertainment, there are a vast number of video-game choices. Don’t throw the whole industry under the bus because of a few games that happen to be violent. And even with those games, there is no proof that violent video games lead to violent acts.
Quboid wrote on Mar 19, 2013, 11:08:
The line between a democracy and a republic is so vague, it might as well not exist. I'm not aware of any country that can be described as one and not described as the other. Even in the UK, where "republican" means someone opposed to the Royal Family, we operate as a republic. We also operate as a democracy, just not a direct democracy.
I didn't know about the 3/4 rule. That seems wrong, why should a voter in Wyoming get about 50x the power of someone in California? That's still a form of democracy, it just moves the bar from 50% to 75%. That's still mob rule. Any system where the population has any say in the law is mob rule, and these are better systems than the alternatives.