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It seems like the country is 50-50 divided on this. But more importantly, individual liberty is more important than majority rule. When the founding fathers cre
by winter_blue 11y ago
It seems like the country is 50-50 divided on this. But more importantly, individual liberty is more important than majority rule. When the founding fathers created this country, they cared deeply about individual liberty, and worried about a tyranny of the majority. Even if a super-majority wants to deprive an individual or a minority group of its rights, they should not be allowed to.
A free country's first commitment is to personal liberty, and only secondly to democracy.
- geggam 11y agoby definition a democracy is a tyranny of majority.... i think you mean secondary to the republic
- themartorana 11y agoNo, it's to the Republic to make sure the ideals of true democracy take a secondary place to individual liberty for the very reason that true democracy can be tyrannical. That's why the Republic comes before the democracy.
- wiz21 11y ago"50/50 divided" means "nobody knows"
- EdHominem 11y agoThat's the one-testicle, one-breast, average-person fallacy. There's more than one issue concurrently, and many people are actually dumb and wrong.
- dhimes 11y ago"A free country's first commitment is to personal liberty" Excellent.
- themartorana 11y agoWish I could upvote this twice.