The Most Intolerant Wins (concept) §
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- This is Pareto principle applied to minorities
- It is not the minority that bends to the majority
- But an inflexible minority that forces the majority to acquiesce to them
- For example, automatic drivers force manual cars out
- (They were once a minority)
Highlights §
- We might assume that the nature of democracy would mean the minority acquiesces to the whims of the majority. In reality, the majority’s passivity toward a policy or behavior is surpassed only by the minority’s rigidity toward it.
