On Feb 26, 2013, at 5:25 PM, Bill Bartlett <william7 at aapt.net.au> wrote:
> It is true that consensus makes it harder to get the outcome you want, because that is the very idea. Rather than simply ride roughshod over objections of minorities, you would need to convince them to go along. The presumption of consensus advocates is that this is a good thing on balance, because of the advantages I mentioned before.
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> Presumably, advocates of majority rule think that it is a good thing to simply ignore the interests of the minority.
You sound like James Madison, putting limits on majoritarian power.
Doug