Comments on: The Tyranny Of The Majority http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/12/19/the-tyranny-of-the-majority/ Life. Liberty. Property. Defending individual freedom and liberty, one post at a time. Fri, 17 May 2013 18:49:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Doug Mataconis http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/12/19/the-tyranny-of-the-majority/#comment-4756 Doug Mataconis Thu, 21 Dec 2006 04:28:08 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/12/19/the-tyranny-of-the-majority/#comment-4756 Kevin.

I agree with you, but I would point out that the Confederacy was created by representatives of about 1/4 of the voters of its population. Women could not vote in 1860, neither could blacks. I’d hardly call that democracy to begin with.

Nonetheless, your point is absolutely well taken. And speaks the truth to anyone who claims that the CSA stood for anything other than the enslavement of human beings.

]]> By: Kevin http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/12/19/the-tyranny-of-the-majority/#comment-4754 Kevin Thu, 21 Dec 2006 04:24:07 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/12/19/the-tyranny-of-the-majority/#comment-4754 Let me throw out another democratically elected dictator, Adolf Hitler. Also, I seem to recall the Confederacy, one of the few nations in world history to have as one of its founding principles the enslavement of an entire race of people, was also democratically elected with the will of the majority of Southerners.

]]> By: Drunken Pirate http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/12/19/the-tyranny-of-the-majority/#comment-4724 Drunken Pirate Wed, 20 Dec 2006 18:58:19 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/12/19/the-tyranny-of-the-majority/#comment-4724 For whatever it is worth, the way you guys were treated on the mahablog was disgraceful.

I used to be a big fan of the mahablog, but lately I have lost a lot of respect for the author of that blog. It is becoming all too terribly apparent that she just wants her ego stroked.

Just about the gravest sin a commenter can make on that site is to publicly disagree with her with rational, informed arguments. Her typical reaction is to fly into an irrational snit, hurl insults about the intelligence of the commenter, and then ban the commenter as a “troll”. She is way too full of herself, an ironic condition for someone who claims to be informed by Buddhist philosophy.

]]> By: Brad Warbiany http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/12/19/the-tyranny-of-the-majority/#comment-4666 Brad Warbiany Wed, 20 Dec 2006 14:23:28 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/12/19/the-tyranny-of-the-majority/#comment-4666 You’re not kidding, VRB! I don’t know about the other writers at this site, but my bookshelves are heavy and getting heavier every month.

]]> By: mike http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/12/19/the-tyranny-of-the-majority/#comment-4645 mike Wed, 20 Dec 2006 05:03:07 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/12/19/the-tyranny-of-the-majority/#comment-4645 Haha, that’s quite the compliment, VRB.

]]> By: VRB http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/12/19/the-tyranny-of-the-majority/#comment-4644 VRB Wed, 20 Dec 2006 04:59:24 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/12/19/the-tyranny-of-the-majority/#comment-4644 One has to be really well read to debate a libertarian.

]]> By: mike http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/12/19/the-tyranny-of-the-majority/#comment-4642 mike Wed, 20 Dec 2006 04:28:01 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/12/19/the-tyranny-of-the-majority/#comment-4642 Interesting you should bring up Jim Crow laws…our esteemed colleague over at the Mahablog somehow tried to equate classical liberal principles with the enaction and support of Jim Crow laws.

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