Thousands of youngsters have joined the army since October 7 — and it is illegal to refuse. Sofia Orr is likely to become the first woman since then to be jailed for refusing military service, but believes it is ‘wrong to take children and make them into soldiers’
  • InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Democratic states are the abstraction of all the private interests of their citizens.

    I am not sure what this means, can you clarify a bit?

    • tillimarleen@feddit.de
      2·
      8 months ago

      A democratic state allows its citizens to pursue their private interests. This is only possible though if this is happening in a legal framework, so that the private interests of one citizen don‘t infringe upon the ones of another. The outcome of this consideration then is the abstraction (the specific applied to the universal) of the free will of the citizens. We call it freedom and justice. Others call it the free market.