Comment by asgard1024

It is a straw man, here's why. There is no case in history where the decision of majority would be significantly, from the moral perspective, worse than the decision of the elites from the same culture. The problem of your argument is that you compare real democratic decision with some moral ideal. But in real world you have to compare democratic decisions to decisions of elites inside the same culture (because these are the options you have).

It was studied and we know, normal people will be more conservative than elites. But they don't make worse moral decisions, quite the opposite. People also tend to spend less money in government than elites, for better or worse.

I don't downvote or upvote in threads I discuss in (that's Slashdot habit). Btw, I was downvoted, I suspect because someone thought I attacked personally. And I did, because the person is fair game - saying majority is making life hell-hole is a personal attack on 3.5 billion people.