Democracy creates stability in a society

I agree to a large extent. Democracy allows everyone to have an equal chance for job or school applications, and is unbiased in terms of race, language and religion. In a democratic society, everyone is equal, and rewards, jobs and school admissions are based not on riches or status, but on merit. This ensures that everyone does their part in society to the best of their ability instead of lazing around letting others do the work for them as they will only benefit if they work hard. This ensures that every aspect of society is well taken care of and not neglected, creating a much more stable society.

Democracy is especially important when the society has many races, religions and languages. If favor is shown to a single race for example, many people of another race will be unhappy, and riots and protests may occur. This definitely makes a society much more unstable, thus showing how important democracy is to create stability.

However, democracy is not perfect, and a loophole in democracy may be that the larger race has more “power” as a whole, and can overrule other races just because of size. This creates certain problems like one race being dominant over another, like in America where the whites are dominant over the blacks. Because of this outnumbering, the largely white government creates policies that are in favor of the whites, and conflict arises as the blacks find it unfair. This also applies to religion and culture. Another problem could be that some people in the society are not mature enough to hold such “power” in their hands. An example of this is people who vote for the sake of voting, and do not choose wisely. This may cause the government to be made out of unsuitable candidates, who do not have the capability or ability to lead the society, naturally creating further problems which lead to instability.

These problems mostly arise because of the fallibility of the human race. If people can accept people of other races, religions and cultures, the problem or a certain group having more power can be solved. This problem is caused because people cannot accept those who are different as their equal, which is due to the pride of the human mind. Also, this may be caused by the fact that some people find it hard to work with a person with different views and backgrounds. This can be easily solved if everyone if more willing to mix with other people, and get to know them better.

Almost all the problems in today’s societies are cause by the fallibility of man, which is true; however, democracy prevents many of those problems, unlike other forms of government. Many problems that arise in democratic societies would be worse if it were a communist community or other kind of society. An example would be China. In China, riots and protest happened all the time as the people were not happy with decisions made by the communist government.

Ultimately, democracy is not perfect, but compared to other forms of government, it is one of the best forms of government, and relative to them, creates stability in a society.