Show of Hands

Umm, it wasn't in response to anything so a bit hard to be a "straw man," I'm curious to see if you understand what that is and how you think it applies

How is that much different? And anyway that's only at the federal level.

I live in PA. PHL and PIT. They are the tails that wag the dog. They have a concentration of the Voters. They out vote the rest of the state, for the most part...
Federal level, NY, CA, and the few eastern states would rule the rest of the country. You can't have that!

Yeah, that didnt address my response at all

Think outside the box. That is my answer.

Lol that's all you need to say

Because "just move" isn't always a viable option

Sure it is

Name a single modern democracy without checks and balances of any kind.

Name the chexks and balances we have and mind you it's demonstrably the case thay the three branches mostly work together and it's rare one actually stops the other.

Also, thats the federal level, it's worse at the state and local levels.

The constitution and the court system are frequently a check on the other two branches. Just look at how much Trump whines about the courts.

No examples?

What the hell are you even talking about?

^^^what she said

If this is our government and total population then its fine.

Are they really that different in anything other than name?

Yes, they are.

Go on

We are both a republic and a democracy. They are not mutually exclusive.

Do explain how our bastardized democratic system is any different. I'm going to go make some popcorn.

It's your claim, you have to explain how it is.

Ballot questions??

What if they elect one of the men to lead them, who then decides that they should all have sex?

???? What

Yeah this analogy makes no sense.

A republic, even a democratic republic IS different than a democracy. I stand by my answer

the safeguard here is more the size of the republic than anything. it's harder to convince millions of people to vote for this that it is to convince 4 dudes.

@ozzy you didn't explain anything you just restated your initial post. If you have such a strong point then articulate it rather than dodging the question

@sadewt so increase the size and change the issue. Is it ok to violate rights simply because a bunch of people agree to it? What does that change?

you don't understAnd what I said at all.
I don't have time to spell it out for you at the momonet, but just because something is a law doesn't make it ok.

The 4 men vote for 1 of the men to represent them. He decides they should have sex with the woman. Same analogy for a "republic"

Democracy can't override our natural rights. That's why democracy is tempered with the Constitution.

so in my comment, I was trying to correct Ozzy about what the safeguard is against a situation such as the one rebelfury described coming to be in the United State, which is the size of the republic. Not whether it's a republic or a democracy.
And since apperently it can't just be inferred, I, Like 95%+ of the people who've answered this poll, don't think that the hypothetical actions of the roommates are in any way ok.