Quote Originally Posted by Rhyfelwyr View Post
Well the law, or respect for minorities, are all ideas implemented by a government at some point, so it will be up to the government to take them away. I guess the only way you can lay down things such as minority rights are through a constitution, but then unless you want to be like the Spartans and claim your constitution comes from the gods, at the end of the day it's just another invention of the government and can be removed by a government if they really want to.
That goes for every type of government. Well except anarchy I guess, where there wouldn't be one.

Quote Originally Posted by Rhyfelwyr View Post
But is there such a thing as "the people"? One person might not want to employ X type of person, another person might not want to employ Y type of person, everyone is different. Why should anyone have the right to tell an employer what to do with his own private business, least of all some abstract idea of "the people"?

Note how in the fist part of your post I quoted, you appeal to the "liberal" part of liberal democracy, but in the second part you appeal to the "democracy" part. But, unless the people democratically choose to be liberal, then I don't think democracy is an appropriate name for the system. Just admit it's liberalism being forced on everyone, all that democracy can do is tweak the system. Maybe that is a good thing, because strictly speaking, democracy is majority rule.
Change "liberalism" with "socialism", and I'll happily agree.

I can make a compromise with social liberalism though. Just keep me away from market liberalism....