Rebuttal: Between the devil and the deep blue sea

Rebuttal to Rebuttal to Opposition 1
Kah Khang

In the last rebuttal, it was mentioned that stability was not brought because the people are not voting best for themselves, which is the underlying assumption in a democratic political system. However, I would like to point out that, in a society with conflicting parties, each focusing on a different collective group of people and seeking to undermine the other, any vote to either party would risk harming and undermining another group of people. To put it simply, what may be best for one may not be best for another. Under these circumstances, there would be no choice that one can make, whose party would not seek to undermine a group of people. Using the example of Sri Lanka, if either party won, they would seek to undermine the group which the other party would represent. Therefore, either way, it would not be able to avoid the social instability that would be brought, whatever the results may be. Therefore, we can see that democracy may fail to resolve conflicts in a society, under circumstances where a society is divided into groups of people who share no common identity but rather a hatred towards one another.