Do you support universal suffrage?

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[–]Drewski 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

Anyone should be able to vote, but the will of the majority cannot infringe on the rights of the individual. An apt metaphor for democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner.

[–]fschmidt[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

In other words, you want something that you know doesn't work.

[–]Drewski 4 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

Those are other words, but they aren't related to the ones I said.

[–]AlanSmith33 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I can verify, these two posts have no words that are re-used and are completely independent.

[–]Canbot 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I don't think you understood what he said. Democracy is still democracy even with unimpeachable individual rights.