Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 v7 ucbtopaz-1.8; site ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!ucbvax!ucbtopaz!mwm From: mwm@ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Majority Rule? Message-ID: <624@ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA> Date: Tue, 8-Jan-85 11:51:36 EST Article-I.D.: ucbtopaz.624 Posted: Tue Jan 8 11:51:36 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 12-Jan-85 00:25:18 EST References: <2148@umcp-cs.UUCP> <1468@ihuxl.UUCP>, <40@ucbcad.UUCP> <622@ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA>, <51@ucbcad.Re: Re: Re: Exactamoondo! Organization: Univ. of Calif., Berkeley CA USA Lines: 17 From faustus@ucbcad.UUCP Wed Dec 31 16:00:00 1969 > 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 That's one of the points of libertarianism: there is no absolute good, so nobody has the right to force their view on somebody else, including the majority on the minority. Of course, the majority doesn't always get what they want (even in America). Usually, those with the majority of force get what they want no matter what the majority wants. Will this also do fine by you?