• @[email protected]
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    111 months ago

    That’s a danger in all forms of government if a large enough majority wants that.
    In which case the form of government would stop being a democracy.

    Some nations try to protect against that with additional measures, like Germany where the parts of the constitution guaranteeing human rights can’t be changed by any majority, and it includes a right to resistance for any citizen should all legal avenues fail. But ultimately, if everyone in a country wants to abolish the protection of minorities, no piece of writing or procedure can prevent that.

    • MacN'Cheezus
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      111 months ago

      Well, that was sort of my entire point, and the story in the OP is another example of how democracy can fail because the majority opinion is sometimes wrong.