whowhowho comments on Science Doesn't Trust Your Rationality - Less Wrong

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Comment author: whowhowho 20 February 2013 09:37:17AM 3 points [-]

Who guards the guardians? Who watches the watchers?

What guards institutions is other institutions, eg a free press. You are tacitly assuming there is just a Government and the People and that is that. But healthy systems have multiple institutions, and even split the government, eg into executive and legislature.