@springyzone wrote:
I suppose my concern is that I know attitudes change over time but I feel that at the moment, there are forces at work to ensure that what are minority views in many cases are enforced on the majority.
I did acknowledge that the mic example was ridiculous, but minority views being adopted by the majority is often how social change and progress actually happens. "Minority" doesn't mean not enough to be significant or worthwhile, for a lot of people it just means they don't know / understand / respect / believe how significant and worthwhile it actually is.
It isn't always philosophical, either - "harm" is difficult to quantify, but the effects of that harm can often be borne out in data quite easily.
