>> From: Forest Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Subject: Re: Tyranny of the Majority
>> One example I had in mind was Rwanda. Majority rule or
>> minority rule, same result: genocide. Solution: compromise
>> candidate with approval from both extremes.
Yow! Best example I've seen so far.
Also points out one of the problems with even defining a
majority. There would be the bigger group (majority),
smaller group (minority), and a compromise candidate would be
a lower-intensity choice of a majority larger than either of
the two groups. In this case, which is the true majority?
>> Forest
>> On Sat, 5 May 2001, Anthony Simmons wrote:
>> > >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> > >> Subject: Re: Tyranny of the Majority
>> >
>> > >> How often to > 50 percent majorities tyrannize themselves
>> > >> (for decades or centuries) as compared to thousands of
>> > >> years of tyranny by monarchies / oligarchies ???
>> >
>> > How often do absolute monarchs tyrannize themselves?
>> >
>> > Here's the question I would ask: Does the majority tend to
>> > tyrannize the minority?
