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Tyranny of the majority is still tyranny. There's NOTHING about the concept of democracy that requires majority-rule to be the way to run it. Majority rule is t
by quadrangle 11y ago
Tyranny of the majority is still tyranny. There's NOTHING about the concept of democracy that requires majority-rule to be the way to run it. Majority rule is the stupidest and most dangerous way to do any democratic decision-making.
Better options include consensus, multi-stakeholder representation (like needing overall approval from many different groups within society for a decision), and score voting (See http://electology.org/ http://electology.org/ for more on practical voting systems).
- rubberstamp 11y ago>Better options include consensus, multi-stakeholder representation this.. i give you a thousand points
- dang 11y agoPlease don't do this (or https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10871890 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10871890 or https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10871899 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10871899) on HN. We're looking for thoughtful, substantive comments here. It's best to post fewer and make them more like that.
- purpled_haze 11y agoHowever you can work around consensus also by widespread manipulation, coercion, and torture.
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- diyorgasms 11y agoAnd government will be irrelevant after the heat death of the universe. Of course any system can be subverted. That doesn't stop some implementations from being better than others.
- pixl97 11y ago>like needing overall approval from many different groups within society for a decision I'm going to guess you've never been on a committee and needed something important done but very few people understand. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law_of_triviality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law_of_trivialit...
- akshatpradhan 11y agoI really appreciate people like you referencing citations to logical fallacies. It helps explain to me what to look for in illogical statements.