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Tyranny of numbers philosophy unethical

When intellectuals, political pundits and politicians utter the words, 'tyranny of numbers',  one gets the feeling that those using them have very little regard for the class of people catalogued as forming those numbers. In a democracy, if the numbers are correctly tallied and form the bulk of the total, then democracy is said to have stolen the day (presumably from the tyranny of a powerful minority).

Democracy demands that the majority have their way in decision-making. Anyone who has trouble with that logic is not a democrat; he wants to be accommodated. He cannot argue with the result; he can only plead that the majority take his position into consideration. That may or may not happen. That is a result a democrat has to learn to live with unless, and until it can be democratically altered.

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