@mewmew @Galena Were that the case, I think you might be right but I don’t think that’s the idea the quote is really trying to get across. There are those who tend to think that simply because the majority agree on a thing, whatever the thing may be, it is good and justified and thus should the law or rule or whatever.

In such a situation, you do have effectively two wolves debating the lamb as to the question of dinner. In fact, the quote in question is more about the protection of the minority from the majority which is necessary to prevent the majority from simply voting way the minority’s rights, property or what not.

When people say that unlimited and unbounded democracy is formalized mob rule, they’re not wrong. Which is not to say a direct or full democracy cannot work. It just must be limited to prevent the majority from either screwing over the minority or even eventually screwing themselves over. This is all a long way of saying that simply because a thing was voted on and approved, does not make it moral, justified or anything inherently good. Know what I mean?