This is interesting, Dibbler. Do you not think there is also such thing as a tyranny of the majority?
What if the majority of voters didn't want to grant women suffrage? Congress granted them that privilege by passing the Nineteenth Amendment in the '20s. What if 80% of the public voters (i.e. males) voted against that? Would it have been okay today to continue to deny women the right to vote based on that?
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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