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::Let me draw a comparison: Suppose I wanted to explain to you why eating kittens is wrong. In doing so, I might create an imaginary enemy who believs that eating kittens is right, in order to demonstrate how and why he is wrong. -- [[User:Nikodemos|Nikodemos]] 05:23, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
:::That's ridiculous. The point is that classical liberals want protection FROM democracy. They don't want to be caught in the minority and tyrannized by the majority. Pure democracy has no protections for individual rights. Constitutional republicanism does. [[User:RJII|RJII]] 05:26, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
::::The point is that "pure democracy" is an imaginary enemy, not a real one. It has no supporters. Therefore, it exists only in the imagination of its enemies. -- [[User:Nikodemos|Nikodemos]] 05:32, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
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