re: Should 49% of a country's population have to submit to 51%?

Modern technology, medicine, economic systems, and other products of the last 100 or so years have created a societal scheme for the first time in human history where you have the option to sit on your arse all day and be ensured security (or the illusion thereof) with no personal risk or continue to live a life of meaning and purpose with the understanding that you also risk everything simultaneously.

In most industrialized nations, ~50-60% of the population has chosen slavery with security... but the remainders who believe in individual liberty and responsibility are not going to see their children starving and in chains without death and destruction following first.

It's quite a bad situation as we enter the 21st Century. A century that could have created wonderous human achievement and progress... but will be much more likely to usher in the end of humanity.