We have the fact that nothing is perfect. The majority rule is also not perfect: it has both good and bad effect. The Majority is the decision rule that people choose one of some options, which has more than haft of the votes. For example, if we have one hundred people in a meeting, and we have to decide that which partners A, B, or C we will collaborate for long time, we then vote and there are eighty people (80% people) decide to choose A, so we have to choose A. For the good side, the majority rule expresses the ideas of majority group, which has almost people agree. People then will follow the majority group. Therefore, they realize for the most common ideas. In fact, they will decrease the harm for most of people. With the same sample above, there may be twenty percents (20%) people feel not good or they do not have well instead of eighty percents of people. Is it good or not? I think most of us will say, “Yes, we should follow to eighty percents because… they are the majority group…and we should be for sake of the most common people…etc.” However, have you asked that if the twenty people there really do not agree, they will react very strong? What will be happening? Absolutely they may have a war or at least have an argument with the most common group. It is the negative way of the majority rule. I agree that we should depart of the most common group; however, we cannot deny all of the interest of minority people. If we do so, the minority people will feel hurt and they will react strongly. Therefore, in my opinion, we should harmonize all good of two groups for more interests in the future.
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Starting a war? That might be a little bit over exaggerated... but I do agree with you that the majority rule cannot satisfy the minority. On the other hand, there is no such ways that can satisfy both sides. You said "we should harmonize all good of two groups for more interests in the future"; which is definitely a good idea in theory, but that might be hard to do in practical.
In America we understand the majority rule principle and usually have few problems with the minority feeling left out or ignored. I say this in the context of meetings or even elections. I agree that the needs of all people need to be considered. My question is, what if the majority made a bad decision? Its kind of like the buffalos. Did you know that if the leader starts to run the rest of the buffalo will follow. In fact that is one way that Native Americans woudl hunt them before they had guns. They would get the lead buffalo to start running and would drive him over a cliff and the whole herd ( the rest of the buffalo ) would follow to their death at the bottom of the cliff.
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