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Also, the purpose of the government is to protect the minority from the majority. Just saying
Wrong. The purpose of the government is to protect you from other governments. It's an extortion scheme but the devil you know is the better than the one you dont....
Also changes in ruling powers are usually bloody so the government exists to prevent that as well.
I'm just gonna link to the Wikipedia page for government. That way every position is covered and we can save ourselves from the inevitable slap fight when people can't accept that their interpretation of the "purpose" of government are just interpretations and almost everyone has a different one
In theory but since most countries have majority rule voting this is rarely the case.
Things like gay marriage weren't made legal until most of the country supported it already. Otherwise they'd lose too many votes.