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An opinion of the masses willing to vote is not necessarily an opinion of the masses. Regardless, even if it was a "majority" of people capable of voting, ther
by binarycrusader 12y ago
An opinion of the masses willing to vote is not necessarily an opinion of the masses. Regardless, even if it was a "majority" of people capable of voting, there's a reason the phrase "tyranny of the majority" exists.
There are a number of unnamed social ills and other problems that could still exist today in some countries or that would have likely lasted longer if we had waited for "popular opinion" to change.
I don't agree with forcing Eich out, but Mozilla should have known better than to pick a candidate that was going to be controversial to begin with. A person in leadership should be and often is held to a higher set of expectations.
- baddox 12y ago> An opinion of the masses willing to vote is not necessarily an opinion of the masses. So you're setting up an unfalsifiable claim, unless you have a way to gather the opinions of literally every single person that's guaranteed to yield accurate representations of their opinions.
- aaronbrethorst 12y agoNah, it's really not. Check out RV/LV polling numbers from 2008. I'm sure they showed a difference.
- baddox 12y agoI doubt they polled everyone. And I doubt that anyone can prove that there wasn't some sort of bias in the poll.