"Democracy can create stability in society"

After reading the previous 2 blog posts, i have realised both points of contention. Not attempting to repeat the previous points, i would state some of my concerns and evidence.

Firstly, i would feel that the term 'society' in the question requires to be defined. We should be defining this term, a matured developed society, or a society just breaking free from dictatorship or colonialism etc. This would indeed be important as in the 2 previous arguments stated by Chen Wei and Jinfu, it is evident that both of them have points that are suited to different societies, quoting examples from different times.

However, my base line would be that Democracy do indeed help create stability in society. Democracy is a political system in which the government is chosen and elected by the people themsevles, hence the term 'popular government'. In current context, it is often understood by a system of where the majority rules, however it still requires a check and balance.

Hence, the developement of opposition parties. At this point of time, i would like to state a fundemental benefit of a democratic society - it pushes the country to develop. In a democratic society such as Singapore, there is a presence of opposition parties which keeps the government in change and prevent our current political system to develop into aristocracy and etc. The friendly and positive competition drives forth the fact that the society would not regress or stay stagnant at any particular point.

Although what kind of societies gets tie into the question, it is still clear that democracy still benefit any kind of society. Bringing in the example of Pakistan, Musharaf government intends to bring in the ideal state of democracy to curb and permanently stop the continual violence in the nation. As said, only through transparent, free, fair can democratic rule be implemented, and the violence would thus be able to be slowly stopped.

Having a democratic society is beneficial to such a conflicting country, as often the stem factor of any conflict is the disproportion of treatment and benefits. With the implementation of democracy, slowly the state would be on the right route to progression. Although the start could be slow, but there would be an exponential growth and development for the countries if democracy is able to hold out.

As such, to me that one strong point against democray would be the factor of time. The question does not bring in the factor of time, however we should be using it nonetheless as a short term and long term scale of the benefits of democracy and check if democracy is truly able to promote stability.

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