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This underlying principle would argue that democracy itself is unjust, and that we cannot, say, have laws against murder simply because the majority of people t

• leereeves 6y ago
  > This underlying principle would argue that democracy itself is unjust...while such an argument is technically true, we have yet to find a better way to structure society. We certainly have found a better way to structure society: a Constitutional government that honors certain principles that even the democratically elected Congress and President can only override with much more than a majority, with judges trusted to guard those principles.
  • geofft 6y ago
    Who writes the constitution, and more importantly, who gives it their assent? Who appoints the judges and decides that they are trustworthy? I'm not arguing for rule by simple majority. I do agree that important things need the consensus of much more than 51% of society (let alone 51% of people who bother to vote). If it were only a simple majority of cloud hosts, text messaging services, email providers, and lawyers that ditched Parler, they would be in no danger at all.
    • leereeves 6y ago
      > I do agree that important things need the consensus of much more than 51% of society (let alone 51% of people who bother to vote). Even if all the cloud hosts, text messaging services, email providers, and lawyers in America agreed, that's still much less than a simple majority of Americans. I haven't seen any evidence that a supermajority supports banning Parler, which was the #1 downloaded app on both Google and Apple app stores back in November[1]. 1: https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/09/parler-app-store-facebook/ https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/09/parler-app-store-facebook/