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{{quote|Democracy is an [[Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics|abuse of statistics]].
| [[Jorge Luis Borges]], as quoted in ''"Democracy and Dictatorship in Latin America: A Special Publication Devoted Entirely to the Voices and Opinions of Writers from Latin America"'' by Octavio Paz}}
{{quote|One of the things that the fans of the theory of Democratic Peace, the theory that democracies tend to be at peace with each other, tend to forget is that Gaza and Israel are both democracies.
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If Gaza was ruled by a King, then if that King was to decide for war, that decision would make him [[Holier Than Thou|holier]], but might well get him killed.
But if a voter in Gaza votes for war, his vote makes him holier, but makes absolutely no difference to his chance of being killed, since it is only one vote of millions. From the point of view of the voter, the ideal outcome is that he votes for war, but is, alas, outvoted, by all those inferior people less holy than himself [...]
| ''[https://blog.jim.com/war/need-to-kill-a-lot-more-civilians-in-gaza/ Need to kill a lot more civilians in Gaza]'' on Jim's Blog }}
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