> Generally speaking, governments don't always have your best interests in mind
Generally speaking, this a massive stretch for a democratic country such as Switzerland. What is the government there but a representation of it's citizens?
> What is the government there but a representation of it's citizens?
Situations sometimes come up that the people don’t exactly get a chance to vote on. For instance, no one in the US in 2018 ran on a “if there’s a dangerous respiratory virus circulating in the future I vow to lock the country down to the best of my ability and mandate vaccines that have been fast-tracked” platform, and such a candidate likely wouldn’t win. But here we are.
That's a rather poor example. Nobody campaigns on "If an earthquake/hurricane strikes, I vow to respect and implement the advice of the relevant agencies whose entire job is it to deal with this kind of stuff", because it's kind of a given.
Generally speaking, this a massive stretch for a democratic country such as Switzerland. What is the government there but a representation of it's citizens?