"Democracy creates stability in a society."

Stability is generally defined as peace, with no riots, strikes and any form of protest from the people.

Democracy is a system where power effectively goes to the people. The people make decisions, the people make their own choices. In true democracy, decisions made by the government must be supported by the people. It is a system where the people are the voice and the greatest power.

To achieve stability, it is agreed that we must please the people, since the people are effectively the population and they are the nation. Democracy is exactly the system where people are made happy. Everyone's votes are equal, no one person's vote is more or less important than another, regardless of race, wealth and reputation. The people are given the choice and freedom of how they think the country should be ran.

Since the people are involved in the decisions of the country, they should feel a sense of belonging, and being part of the nation. This would create a common identity that all can relate to, and people will understand the nation not just as a country, but as a home.

By allowing everyone to vote, the people are made happy, or at the very least, satisfied. This forms the very basis for stability. Afterall, happy people probably are unlikely to plan riots and strikes to disturb the peace of the nation, are they?

In short, democracy allows the people to have a voice, and to have the freedom to speak their mind, and no fear of getting into trouble because of anything they say.

The main reason why democracy would create stability would be because it keeps the people happy, and allows them to have a voice. However, there are of course problems with democracy.

One major problem with democracy would be its slow speed in decision making. In true democracy, decisions have to be made by the people. Urgent issues that affect issues such as economy stil have to go through the people. Logically speaking, it is never easy, and never fast to collate the votes of the entire nation.

Another problem with democracy is that the people do not always make the right decisions. Some decisions affect the country on a very wide scale, and since most folks do not see the whole picture, they merely vote for what is best for them. This may sometimes leave various groups of people in difficult situations. For example, the blacks in America used to have a hard time living a good life because most votes were from the whites, who almost always outnumbered the blacks, and made choices that benefitted only them!

The point is, democracy is a system where the majority wins, but the majority may not always be right. And that brings problems to the nation.

Therefore, at first glance, democracy may bring stability and happiness amongst the majority, but for the rest of the people, maybe not so much happiness, since their choice is overshadowed by the majority, regardless of whether it is a 99% to 1% of the population, or a 51% to 49% of the population.

Robert A. Heinlein, a famous author, once said, "Democracy is a poor system of government at best; the only thing that can honestly be said in its favor is that it is about eight times as good as any other method the human race has ever tried."

I fuly agree with him. After all, we see many countries in the world adopting democracy, and most do not have very major instability problems. However, countries such as Russia, which adopted Communism in the past, have had dictators that brought about the downfall of their nation.

Therefore, I feel that I have to agree with the statement. Democracy creates stability in a society, far better than most other systems.

Guan Lin