Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site topaz.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!teddy!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!topaz!josh From: josh@topaz.ARPA (J Storrs Hall) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Re: Re: Exactamoondo! Message-ID: <192@topaz.ARPA> Date: Tue, 8-Jan-85 17:46:28 EST Article-I.D.: topaz.192 Posted: Tue Jan 8 17:46:28 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 12-Jan-85 00:23:54 EST References: <2148@umcp-cs.UUCP> <1468@ihuxl.UUCP>, <40@ucbcad.UUCP> <622@ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA> <51@ucbcad.UUCP> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 14 ... > I think majority rule should do fine. In any case, if the majority want > something, they are going to get it, no matter how right your political > views are... > > Wayne Not necessarily. If the majority has a vague preference for something, and the minority has a fanatical life-and-death preference against it, the minority will (and should) have its way. Simple head-counting misses these subtleties. --JoSH