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Our democratic model will bend to the unreasonable demands of the majority. But religious people are increasingly not the majority in Europe, certainly not the
by FDSGSG 5y ago
Our democratic model will bend to the unreasonable demands of the majority.
But religious people are increasingly not the majority in Europe, certainly not the ones that demand special animal abuse privileges.
- danbruc 5y agoI wouldn't even want to restrict this to religion, there are other topics like taxation, climate change, capital punishment, gun laws, and what not where I can easily imagine that the majority opinion might be flawed because people don't think the issues through carefully enough. And I would guess that it is actually not too uncommon that politics acts against the majority opinion or at least the opinion of large groups. I don't think that this is necessarily bad, after all they are - at least supposed to be - the experts. And that is why I commented to begin with, there is probably some interesting philosophy going on in this area as the majority opinion is not necessarily the correct opinion.