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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 08 October 2015 03:27:49PM 1 point [-]

Some governments are more abusive than others, and governments which are very abusive tend not to be democracies.

Comment author: ChristianKl 09 October 2015 10:34:55AM -1 points [-]

What do you mean with being abusive? Democracies don't have inherent protection of minorities.

Do you believe that the Pakistani government was less abusive than prerevolution Egypt?