Re: mAd MaX? No! INTERNET COMMISSION.

["andi payn" <payn@null.net>]

>> Democracy is not a consensus. The goal of a democratic government is to
>> approximate consensus after acknowledging that perfect consensus is
>> impossible (or at least improbably). The idea of majority rule with
minority
>> protection is the next best thing.
>
>  I guess it depends on how you define consensus.  To me a consensus
>requires a majority.  To others it does not.

A majority is a necessity for consensus, but I don't think it's sufficient.
To me, consensus means that there every serious objection from every
interested party is answered, or at least negotiated away. As groups become
larger, eventually it becomes impossible to do that, and majority rule
becomes the best approximation (as long as processes are set up in advance
for minority protection).