I don't think there's any comparison between drug users and dealers and racial minorities and LGBT people. Putting that aside, democracy--the collective right to create the kind of society the people want--is more important than individual rights. Societies sometimes make terrible mistakes. Democracy doesn't mean that people always make good decisions. But there is no moral justification for any other approach. Such as having a minority decide that the majority must put up with having to step over drug needles in streets or public parks.
You don't think so, but who are you to argue against the democratic social consensus? In Russia they believe that being LGBT is a choice and that it is a choice that is socially harmful. Just like you believe the same wrt drugs.
Putting that aside, if you believe that democracy is more important than individual rights, then you are in no position to claim that democracy and totalitarianism are incompatible. One can certainly have a totalitarian society in which the majority consents to it being so.
The moral justification for a different approach is that unchecked majority rule is merely "might is right" dressed up in a way that makes it a bit more palatable for the masses.
> In Russia they believe that being LGBT is a choice and that it is a choice that is socially harmful. Just like you believe the same wrt drugs.
Except sexual orientation isn’t a choice and drug use is a choice. Except maybe if you’re one of those children born addicted to drugs because of pre-natal exposure.
> Putting that aside, if you believe that democracy is more important than individual rights, then you are in no position to claim that democracy and totalitarianism are incompatible
“Totalitarianism” is defined as “government that is centralized and dictatorial.” Dictatorial is defined as referring to “a ruler with total power.” So defimitinally totalitarianism is a form of minoritarianism. A government that imposes rigid norms based on broad social consensus isn’t dictatorial. Toxic individualists might deem such a government oppressive, but that doesn't make it dictatorial.
