Quote Originally Posted by HoreTore View Post
Nonsense! That would be called "a dictatorship of the majority".

Democracy, as we know it, relies heavily on the notion that minority rights are to be respected. If we start ignoring those, then sure, call it democracy all you want, but it will still be a different system than the one we have now.
nonsense, i refer only to the concept of not interfering with other people, as i explicitly stated in my response to Idaho, a concept enshrined in British lexicon ever since Henry VIII/Beatrice Stella Tanner coined the phrase:

"We do not care what you do as long as you don't frighten the horses."

that is the opposite of the tyranny of the majority, unless you choose to define it as oppressing the minorities right to interfere in the lives of everyone else...........? in which case i have just realised myself to be more authoritarian than previously recognised!