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Quote by: Gods_Mercenary  If people's property and lives are protected, the rule of law exists. What do you mean by group rights? I'm not sure I'd recognize any. The individual's rights are what matters. Democracy is the rule of the majority, no? Unless you get everyone to agree, the majority will always have to impose some sort of rules on others, the key is to keep that to an absolute minimum. Perfect is, of course, an absract, because people are far from perfect. |
If the majority, 51% decides for the other 49%, how are individual rights of the 49% who disagree protected? Democracy by rule of majority defines group rights, do you see? At that point, group rights and individual rights are in conflict.