Citizens (majority) are always right
Our political leaders tells us this, and it seems that majority believes it.
But there is a problem with it when it comes to some issues when majority is wrong. I mean when majority is wrong from politicians point of view like here in Australia majority wants capital punishment and political leaders have other idea and don’t even allow referendum leading to change of rules.
It seems that in political reality majority is right when it suits politicians and are wrong also when it suits politicians.
It was from political point of view, but objectively, is majority always right?
A few decades ago in Germany, mad man Adolf Hitler have promissed it’s people a lot and they believed and supported him in his madness. It is not much point to debate much over it. Majority did not wanted to know or did not believed about reality of his madness, jet supported him in this horrendous crime against humanity.
I hope that most will agree that majority does not have to be right.
Another example when majority may not and is not right is the speeding on the roads. If we remove police from our roads most people have tendency and do speed though in absolute terms it is unwise, it is unsafe, it does not set good example to others. It does not matter if I personally am capable to drive safely much faster than rules allow, in present society, it is unwise and unsafe and wrong to do so.
Well this tendency to speed is an indication that majority is wrong.
If not police perhaps majority would become thieves. And so on.
So far nobody have successfully challenged my observation and experience that: the truth or an idea of right and wrong does not depend on majority, nor minority, nor anyone, but it is an absolute value.
Another observation have led to conclusion that in some cases, the will of majority is the most appropriate.
However this is entirely independent from idea of right and wrong. Majority will is to maintain a certain national flag. It is neither right nor wrong, it is just will of majority.
Let me take another view. It is impossible that majority is right.
For simplicity sake, lets assume that IQ 100 is median and people with score less than 100 are often wrong. Also people with IQ much more than 100 are frequently wrong in number of issues. Another variable is that there is a separation of IQ and wisdom. There can be uneducated but wise person and very educated but unwise.
Now when we add another fact that majority of people in western sicieties have serious mental problems requiring medication, than the idea that majority is right is not very feasible.
Now when we take reverse path, what our politicians and officials say may or may not be right at all. We do need to examine carefully all situations. Same applies to judges. It is definitely not true that truth or right is what judge decide. Most often it is wrong.
