Re: Hunting is banned!

From: John Cartmell (john_at_cartmell.demon.co.uk)
Date: 11/25/04 

Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 00:40:11 +0000 (GMT)

In article <41a52244$0$43606$ed2e19e4@ptn-nntp-reader04.plus.net>,
   Old Codger <oldcodger@anyoldwhere.net> wrote:
> Rooney wrote:
> > On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 19:09:15 +0000, Oz <oz@farmeroz.port995.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Rooney <pvrooney@aol.com> writes
> >>> On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 18:25:08 +0000, Oz <oz@farmeroz.port995.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> One function of a working democracy is to allow freedom for
> >>>> minorities within it, where what they do does not affect others.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> That's nothing to do with the definition of democracy. It's just
> >>> majority rule - no more, no less.
> >>
> >> I didn't say definition, I said 'one function of a working'.
> >
> >
> > The function of a working democracy is to enact majority rule - no
> > more, no less.

> So we haven't got a working democracy. Young Tone did not get a majority
> vote, just a majority of the parliamentary seats.

I think you're (deliberately?) misunderstanding the meaning of 'majority
vote'. The last time the majority vote didn't produce the next government
was in 1951. 

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