Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-30172350-20170617091148/@comment-734582-20170618162047

Ririblob wrote: why 51% voted out. That would imply the rights and wishes of nearly half the country doesn't matter? But now they're starting to backtrack when they see what it's costing.

More practically though, the whole "Many" aspect has so many problems. There's no strict majority of anything, and those majorities don't have to overlap. More men? deny women all rights. Ok now that women have no rights, pick the majority of non-smokers and kill all smokers. Now, pick the majority of christians and kill all muslims. Oh some people complain? they're the few, kill them too.

It simply doesn't work in practice since you can justify almost anything with "needs of the many". Oppression, war, murder, denial of rights, slavery, dictatorship. It's a nice catchphrase but "Many" and "few" and "needs" can really be modified to fit anything you like.

People like to think they're the majority until they realize they're not.