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Yep! As a minority, you better hope that (or can convince) the majority values the rights that you use most often (life, due process, etc) over what the majorit
by ENOTTY 9y ago
Yep! As a minority, you better hope that (or can convince) the majority values the rights that you use most often (life, due process, etc) over what the majority sees as the gain from depriving you of your rights.
This is fundamentally authoritarian, I acknowledge. But it's reality and believing it's the opposite doesn't do anyone any good.
- mindslight 9y agoLike the joke about the economist that does not reach down to pick up a $20 bill off the sidewalk (because if it were a real $20 bill, someone would have picked it up already!), you're ignoring the remainders. The main one being what is actually possible to enforce. The majority of citizens being bannermen for the government can yield pretty in-depth control (eg report your deviant neighbors), but there are still limits. For example, any government was hard pressed to discover and record exactly what people said in the privacy of their own homes, until QualGoogAzon came along.