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I think your outrage over specific transgressions got the better of you, turning you to black-white thinking. It's a fallacy. If someones right got trampled, t

I think your outrage over specific transgressions got the better of you, turning you to black-white thinking. It's a fallacy. If someones right got trampled, that is something to take to the court. The law is there to protect the single man or minority from 'the terror of the majority'. That's why we mean with democracy not just the ability to vote, but also the rule of law . We also mean the trias politica: law making powers, executive power, and judiciary power al separated. No one said that in a democracy everything will be perfect. It requires work. It at least gives you the tools to improve it. It is a living system.

ncmncm 4y ago
Ask Emmett Till about that. Well, you can't, because he's dead. His (admitted -- boasted, really) murderer was acquitted in a trial by a jury of his peers. The murderer's. None of Emmett's, of course. So, no. Democracy or something like is generally a prerequisite for the notion of rights to even have meaning. But it absolutely does not demand them. Each has to be fought for over many generations. You have to hope your democracy lasts long enough for that. Often enough a neighboring autocrat crushes it.