chefjeff said:Democracy is violence by a bigger group over a smaller one. It is two wolves and a lamb voting on what is for dinner.
The lambs have no rights, apparently...except to be eaten by the free* society.
Jeff Livingston
* Freedom isn't one group forcing another group to behave as the first wants. Freedom is for the individual, the smallest minority. No one individual is free to initiate harm against another. And to follow that, no one can get conspire with others to inititate harm against another(s).
Sorry it took so long to respond. I thought this thread had gone the way of the wind.
The sheep and wolf analogy is an old one. The US isn't a simple democracy such as your example describes. We are a constitutional, representative democratic republic. There are not direct elections of laws and there is a constitution that limits what laws can be enacted. Extend the analogy to take that into account and lo and behold, it becomes: "deciding what to have for lunch that is not one of us."
Now, if you were making the analogy about anarcho-capitalism, it would become "two wolves competing to be first to 'add value' to the sheep by slaughtering it and sell it to the others."
This is really a classic libertarian strawman, used by many flavors of anarchists for centuries. The authors of the US Constitution were well aware of this. They devoted a segment of the Federalist papers to it: "... it may be concluded that a pure democracy... can admit of no cure for the mischiefs of faction... A republic, by which I mean a government in which the scheme of representation takes place, opens a different prospect, and promises the cure for which we are seeking." Federalist No. 10, James Madison.