Democracy Should Always Seek to Leave men and women as they are

... ey enshrine the norms and traditions of the general society as their own. "Some community based theorists turn to traditional sources to articulate the content of social norms and the shape of relationships endorsed by the community. Others stress a commitment by the society to pursue the common good rather then a regime of entirely private, individual choices."[9] These same community based theorists are often the ones who believe that a democracy should not seek to allow or permit any relationship that is based on the feeling that an individual has the right to choose their own path or mode of living, within a free democracy. "Where contract based theories would urge freedom for individuals to embrace their own values under a state neutral about all values except individual's freedom to contract, community based theories regard it as neither possible nor desirable 'that the state should refrain from coercive public judgements about what constitutes the good life for individuals'."[10] The significant features of this collective community based theory that one should pick out are the terms; coercive, public judgments (collective 'democratic' judgements), and individual freedom. Within the realm of the community based theorist, whose desire for collective decisions of the community to impost the prop ...