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No government ever devised will satisfy every citizen in every instance. Not being able to operate a chicken farm in downtown Atlanta is not an example of tyranny of the majority. It is an example of societal compromise for harmony. You can still own a chicken farm, you are just restricted in where you can place that chicken farm so that people dining in a downtown cafe or shopping for clothing in a downtown store do not have to smell the stench of a fully operational chicken farm while participating in activities of their daily lives. There are reasons you can't do anything you damn well please with any piece of property you own.

We have just about every dispute we have within our country, be it abortion, gay marriage, the "tyranny" of zoning, the rightness or wrongness of any given war, because no two people approach life in the same manner. But, in the end, we are social creatures that need the group. The paradox is life, the paradox is not democracy. No matter what system of government we choose, the paradox will remain. You will always need to balance the needs of the individual against the needs of the group. Governing humans will never be a smooth process. Needs differ and needs change. What works today may not work tomorrow. The law you pass to deal with Problem A might have an unanticipated and unintended effect on Situation B. It is an ever evolving and ever necessary process. It can not and never will be a one time plan of action that will answer all present problems and solve all problems for the future.

Looking back to a period of perfection in governance is folly. Such a period of perfection never really existed, and even if it was as close to perfection as had ever been reached in that place and time, that does not mean it is going to be that for this place and this time. We will just have to keep working, tinkering and compromising from here to all eternity. It is the nature of the beast.