That's not what I claim, at all. And basically it's a slippery slope argument that you seem to be making ("Who's to know if they majority is ever right? And w

That's not what I claim, at all. And basically it's a slippery slope argument that you seem to be making ("Who's to know if they majority is ever right? And what about all the times they've been wrong? Therefore the whole system is brought into question", in effect). What I was saying was actually the opposite: we need to consider these situations in terms of first principles, and on a case-by-case basis.