We must also remember that just because many people vote for a song it doesn’t mean it’s the best one. Governments with majority support can also oppress people. If a population holds deeply anti-liberal views, empowering them might result in more oppression, rather than less. Eighty-eight per cent of Egyptians favour the death penalty for people who leave the Muslim religion, and sixty per cent of Afghans think that relatives are entitled to kill a woman who engages in premarital sex or adultery.17 What use is democracy in a country where the majority opinion is brutally oppressive?
