Leftwing Newspaper Gone Too Far?

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The majority can do whatever it likes to the minority - and by the word ''can'' I mean...is able to.

Obscure notions like ''ought'' and ''should'' seem to be a little misplaced.

These seem like overly broad statements. Are you willing to supply some context?

Yes. Might = right.
Right...as in the majority has the collective the right to do whatever it wants. So the context is anthropology.

If you want to keep your guns, your privacy, your marriage laws, your printing presses, your constitutional *cough* rights, etc. you need the imprimatur of the majority - even if they are Luddites.

If you're speaking of the United States, this statement is incorrect. In the Constitution of the United States, there are specific safeguards (however imperfect) in place to prevent the tyranny of the majority.

Well, you see, the Constitution arose from the Declaration of Independence.

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth....

That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government...

The majority in the USA can make a new Constitution anytime they like and who is going to stop them? The King of England?