/sci/ - Science & Math

Objective impartial scientist here.

There will never be a pure free market or perfect democracy just as there will never be perfect equality or complete security, if you try to bring one of these values to their "logical conclusion" you quickly discover out of necessity other priorities that you have dismissed, at which point continued ignorance would result in disaster. We are not looking at a dichotomy, we are looking at a plethora of known and unknown factors all variable and all interacting with each other, this concept is similar to structural functionalism I guess except concerning government policy rather than social norms.

This entire discussion is probably amusing because you have taken sides like you would support a sports team but it will be inconclusive until you start taking the pragmatic perspective, we should be looking at the actual effects of the free market and democratic institutions, how they work, their advantages and disadvantages, accepting that our models of the real world are inaccurate and attempting to evaluate their accuracy and methods to improve accuracy. All to develop specific policies and actual actions that can be undertaken to achieve well defined objectives.

Just saying.