Sunday, December 04, 2005

Democracy, Majority Rights, Common Good


Let me get this straight! Democracy = rule of the majority---Unless someone “feels” hurt or put upon by the decisions of that majority AND gets some tyrannical judge or fool bureaucrat to order that a minority (Sometimes of one person) has more “rights: than everyone else.

No—I am not using any “mind altering substances”! This appears to be the ultimate solution to getting rid of the concept of “the common good” and such governmental practices as, at one time, encouraged that apparently defunct goal and ideal.

Perhaps, we should recall (And put into practice) that principle as once gave the majority certain rights, powers and authority. That principle is called democracy!