Popper on Pakistan

I can’t go to today’s protest as it turns out, but since I’ve just been reading Popper (see how intellectual this blog is?) I thought I’d share with you some words of his about the choice between democracy and tyranny (from The Open Society and its Enemies, volume 1). They apply brilliantly to Pakistan, which hasn’t always had the best http://www.magliettedacalcioit.com civilian rulers:

“What may be said… to be implied in the adoption of the democratic principle is the conviction that the acceptance of even a bad policy in a democracy (as long as we can work for a peaceful change) is preferable to the submission to a tyranny, however wise or benevolent.”