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Arish Ali
@arish · 2:24

The Majority is Never Right

Henriette Ipsen was one of the most famous theorites at the turn of the 19th century, and he's written some amazing plays. One of his most famous quotes, the the, the, the the the the the the the the majority is never right out. The quote, the majority is never right. Never. I tell you that's one of those lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebuilding against who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population?

Henrik Ibsen quote - what does it mean for modern democratic policy making

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Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 2:43

Messy out loud!

And the mass mentality, which goes along with majority ruling, is a dangerous mentality to help to run the country or run any institution or any culture, because it's generally not formed by wisdom but other by something that's more gut and more tribal and in times of calm, I don't think it's a big problem to sort of circle around this issue that you brought up
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Samuel Lacuna
@Sarlax · 4:57

What kind of questions can regular human judgment answer? What questions sh

And I think that's why in switching to politics, character matters so much in politicians because it's a shortcut for regular people to make, not the decision about whether a given tax plan is the best or whether even something like climate change is real. But instead of looking at two people having a disagreement, they may not be able to figure out the complex empiric behind the debate, but they can see that between those two, one of them is more trustworthy
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