Quote of the day

[amanda_lodden]

"I'm betting that you could find a large enough majority to vote down just about anything that's important to someone if you asked the right people for their opinions. I suspect that's why we don't ask people for their opinions about stuff that's not really any of their business. If we did we'd all be one religion, work the same job, have the same number of kids, maintain an ideal weight, drink very little or not at all, dress the same way and drive the same vehicle. Which is only fun until you're not the one who gets to decide." -- Chris Drummonds

Comments

[roseneko.livejournal.com]

A-bloody-men. The whole reason we aren't a democracy (contrary to what some folk would have you believe) is that in a true democracy, the mob rules. Supposedly, the legislative and judicial parts of our government are put in place to have cooler heads and therefore protect the rights of the minority when the majority wants to suppress them. Sadly, that so often isn't the case - the people making up those branches are human, too, and the instinct to follow the herd is a strong part of the human psyche.