Democracy and Responsibility

The advantages of a democratic system are obvious, and there should be little doubt that the process of democratisation is an inevitable development in a people’s history, that can only commence after outgrowing and overturning existing totalitarian systems.

However, one aspect of democracy seems to be systematically ignored, in a world where democratic countries happen to be the most influential powers within the global community.

What is often overlooked, is that citizens living in a democracy bear a collective responsibility for their government’s actions, since their government consists of representatives that were elected by the people.