This is the problem with democracy: the people making the decisions often aren't those who are affected by them the most. It's how you define the demos. It's un

This is the problem with democracy: the people making the decisions often aren't those who are affected by them the most. It's how you define the demos. It's unjust for Americans to vote on policies that make the difference between life and death for large numbers of much poorer people, without giving them any say. If democratic decision-making goes against vast improvements to the lives of billions of people, then democracy is simply wrong and should be abandoned.