Both ways have been tried in the past. Both don't work.That's interesting. What would be the alternative? Keep them as slaves, or just kill them rightaway?
The bad on democracy is that anyone can vote. The good is that by that the government should be keen on having a well educated and intelligent populace. Judging by politics of the last decades, they keep failing at that.
But seeing how much the BSDs have been dying and how dead our horses are proclaimed to be, we must be some very mighty necromancers. Don't you think?