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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: Lane3 who wrote (116544)5/27/2005 10:59:34 AM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (2) of 793838
 
This is the one that bugged me:

>>A significant advantage of a one party state is that it avoids all the arguments that delay progress in a democratic political system.<<

That statement is objectively true, so true you could call it a fact. If you were analyzing pros and cons on one-party states, that particular advantage would be at the top of the list. There's no way anyone could legitimately disagree. It seems to me that the real question they're trying to ask is whether one thinks that that advantage outweighs the disadvantages, but they're not framing it correctly.

Ditto here. I finally decided to place the emphasis on "progress" (I couldn't figure out what emphasis the authors intended), in which case the question became whether "progress" carried moral connotations or not.
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