The major flaw in capitalism that can endanger the rights of individuals

Democracy when defined as "majority rules" has a major flaw and can endanger the rights of individuals. Let me explain:

Imagine you're part of a group of 10 friends from an early age. You go through elementary school together and form bonds with eachother. Now imagine that when you're all in middle school together, the economy in your country starts doing worse due to political unrest in the country. Your family is well off and has no issues buying you school lunches, but the parents of 2 of the members of your friend group lose their jobs, and so they aren't able to give their children lunch money anymore. In order to be able to eat, these 2 at first hang around the cafetaria and harass other students for money/food, but overtime it rises to straight up extortion/stealing. The friend group is divided on the matter, and so mostly a blind eye is turned, and it isn't really brought up much to preserve peace within the group. Now imagine that when you all go to high school together, the political unrest in the country escalates. 30% of the population supports political group A, and 70% supports political group B, but the 30% controls all the wealth and resources in the country, and therefore is able to seize power, against the will of the remaining 70%, causing riots. Within your friend group, the families of 7 of your friends support political group A, the families of the other 2 in your friend group don't have a strong affiliation with either party, and your family has a strong affiliation with political group B. Those 7 friends whose families support group A are all jubilent and join a political youth organization that aims to reform the country. The 2 others think it's kinda messed up but don't care that much, whereas you are unhappy with the situation but decide to just stick out the last few years of high school with them and then part ways when you go to uni. However, before everyone graduates high-school, things escalate even further in the country and riots become more violent. The 7 friends now tell you and the other 2 that they want you to join the political youth organization, so that instead of hanging out after school, you can all go help the police break down protests and make sure the ruling party stays in power. The other 2 friends reluctantly agree, because they and their families don't care too much which party is in power. Focus now shifts to you, and now all 9 friends are in favor of all of you being active in the political youth group after school instead of hanging out. Majority rules after all. This is all perfectly reasonable (within the friend group), but only on one condition. Which is you having complete and total freedom to leave the friend group at any point in time. If you are able to tell your friends that this decision is too much, is going to make you leave the friend group, and they 100% accept your choice, all is well. If however, your friends pressure you to stay, and/or straight up prevent you from leaving and use a knife to threaten you, forcing you to choose between death or leaving the friend group, it becomes a major problem. Now, we can extrapolate this scenario, which I believe most people will view the same as me, in order to look at a few things going on in society. First up, democracy. Democracy when defined as "Majority rules" is great, as long as anyone subject to the rule is completely free to leave the group at any point in time. Is this the case when it comes to countries? Generally not really, and/or people don't have the means to leave a country. Many wars were the result of this deeprooted issue in human society. Kosovo that separated from Serbia is a perfect example. Although in that example it was a group of people that had to fight in order to separate itself rather than an individual wanting out. Another thing we can look at using this concept is suicide prevention, which as it stands and as it's currently done is arguably the biggest crime in all of human society. If an individual wants to leave a country but cannot, because it'd mean jumping into the ocean, getting shot at the border, or simply not being able to feed oneself in another country, that means the individual is essentially unable to leave the country without choosing death. If things get to a point within that country where the individual is suffering intensely, perhaps due to being unable to leave a job it hates, and being unable to get away from a family that abuses it, etc. Things may get to a point where the individual will choose death over its current situation, when there is no other way out. If said individual is at least allowed to leave this world and choose death, there is a limit to how much it will suffer, namely death (whatever that may entail, no one knows), but if the individual is prevented from killing itself, there is no saying how much it could potentially suffer. Is there a limit? Personally, I wouldn't necessarily advocate for handing every individual who says they want to kill themselves a gun, or when someone fails a suicide to offer to help them be more successful next time. It's reasonable to want to stop someone from killing themselves, especially if you care about that person. HOWEVER, as it currently stands, people who show signs of suicide are involuntarily locked up in "mental health hospitals", within which they get tortured in the form of being restrained if they don't act like a "normal person", and they get drugs injected into them against their will, which is by definition rape (penetrating another person's physical boundary against their will), that alter their brain chemistry in ways that no one fully understands. I'll grant you that this approach may prevent that person from leaving this world, but if you believe that treating an individual, who is clearly suffering in ways that you do not understand, like that, with perhaps an intent to help but with zero kindness or compassion, is going to help that individual, you are DELUSIONAL. Furthermore, if the punishment for talking about wanting to kill yourself and the punishment for not being able to stop yourself from attempting to kill yourself is involuntary confinement, torture, rape, and involuntary altering of your brain chemistry, you are not exactly incentivized to talk about these things, and you better make sure that if you attempt to kill yourself, you are successful. Because if you just want to show others how much you're suffering by harming yourself as a cry out for help, the risk you're taking is those punishments. I wouldn't be surprised if the number of suicidal people is 10-100x as high as people think, because logic dictates most people are afraid of anyone finding out they're suicidal.

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