Feudal Sectarianism: The Root Cause of Lebanese Dysfunctionality | Ya Libnan | Lebanon News Live from Beirut
completely different thing when the aim of the plan can never be satisfied through the chosen policies. One cannot pretend to be in favour of public transportation and yet offer major subsidies and giveaways only to those who are willing to purchase private personal vehicles. But this is exactly the type of misguided policies that the opposition forces in Lebanon have been advocating. In a perfect world, a random sample of a population; say a bag of green, red and blue marbles; will have the same proportional composition as the population itself. That, however, is never the case in the real world and especially when one colour gets a 25% advantage in the likely hood of its selection. The Christians in Lebanon are at best 40% of the population but are guaranteed 50% of the seats in the Chamber of Deputies and by the same logic demand half of the cabinet ministries. That is a behavior that cannot be condoned in a society of law and order, a society based on equality and justice. Nonetheless if we are to begrudgingly overlook this fatal allocative mechanism then we need to ask the question of what are the attributes that create a personal identity? Why are we to choose a sample that is reflective of religious affiliation and not say gender or even economic station?
