Does the entire world deserve democracy?

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All people deserve at least some form of self-rule, though that self-rule needs to be tempered by prohibitions against stripping the rights of minorities (through a constitution and judicial system) or attacking other countries (through international intervention, if necessary).

In the very long term, I think only democracy provides an acceptable level of self-rule. In the short and medium term, some states might be better off with some form of mixed government, where a body elected by the people shares power with some sort of oligarchy.