Tyranny of the Majority

[Anthony Simmons]

>> From: Forest Simmons <fsimmons at pcc.edu>
>> 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: DEMOREP1 at aol.com
>> > >> 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?