Archive for August, 2010
A democracy is to be free from tyranny. It engages the majority and ideally, it is utilitarian by nature. A democracy exalts ‘equality’, ‘justice’, and through that, the ‘maximum happiness for the maximum number.’ But one of the pitfalls of having a democracy is the ‘tyranny of the majority’. I think John Stuart Mill’s writings [ READ MORE ]
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