PoLOVEtical science: Democracy

"Western liberal democracy is the final form of human government."

-Francis Fukuyama

But I would disagree, a democracy is a constantly evolving phenomena, it evolves according to situations and needs. While there are various nations practicing many diverse forms of democracy, they all have something in common. The basic concept of, "A government of the people, by the people, and for the people", as famously stated by, Abe Lincoln.

Going by the many debates over the years, one question keeps cropping up.

Should a democracy only take the opinion of the majority? by imposing their choices on the minority in the name of greater good of the whole nation?

I'll put it this way. Any minority forms an important part of a nation. They are just like any other group of people with a different perspective. If we didn't have difference of opinion on a matter, we wouldn't know what was the other alternative? Just like, there is a food web and the more diverse it is the better it is for the ecosystem, there are people with diverse views in the world. The more diverse it is, the better the world gets. As the contribution of each unique perspective helps in providing a platform for the growth and evolution of new ideas transforming the human civilization into something better.
Be it people with a straight orientation, lesbians, gays, transgender, bisexuals, asexual people or be it leftist, rightist, centrists  or be it Christians, Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists or simply both men and women, they all together make this world a  constantly evolving entity. Anything that is stagnant is  symbolic of death.

So who am I in this vast universe to say what is good and what is bad? Everything that exists is good in its own way. Can one appreciate happiness, without knowing what pain is?

Hence how can we justify the imposition of, the ideology, of any majority on the whole population at the cost of the right to freedom of opinion of the minorities of any form? As there is a 'right to life', there should also be a 'right to freedom of opinion.'

Only then can we call any country, a True Democracy...

Likewise my love for her, is a constantly evolving entity. With time, situations and fresh perspectives it keeps modifying itself to evolve into something better. I am ready to listen to her perspectives and not override it by imposing my own opinion on her. Yet, I am helpless as she speaks not, about, what she feels and why she feels so, openly.... without any inhibition. Unless she does that, how does she expect me to understand the rationale behind her stand?

I can only pray that, she sees, what she means to me. And I shall hope, she doesn't misunderstand this love for something else...