So today during lunch, I came across an interesting little story. It was about a pizzeria in Quebec that wanted to find out if pineapple belonged on pizza. He conducted a survey that got 5,000 responses. The results were roughly 53 percent against, and 47 percent for it. The pizzeria responded by taking their pineapple options off the menu and have banned the fruit for the foreseeable future.
My take away on this is that even though a pizzeria removing pineapple from the menu is nearly as trivial as it gets, this is a perfect example as to the problems of the 'Pure Democracy' system. Now I personally do not care for pineapple on pizza, but some people do. 47 percent voted for pineapple pizza, and I'm sure that pizza was someone's favorite pizza, but because of this system, the Majority told this 47 percent 'screw you, your pizza sucks, so nobody gets it now'. The article presented this as a fun little story, but I would be peeved if I liked that pizza, and they took it off the menu because 53 percent voted they didn't like it.
Something tells me the pizzeria did this to get publicity, but still it would be nice for people to decide for themselves what pizza they wanted instead of letting the majority decide what should be banned or not. Again, very trivial in the grand scheme of things, but does have some strong parallels to the political discourse of today. I'm not saying a republic is perfect, but at least we don't have the majority of our country voting pineapple pizzas to oblivion.
My take away on this is that even though a pizzeria removing pineapple from the menu is nearly as trivial as it gets, this is a perfect example as to the problems of the 'Pure Democracy' system. Now I personally do not care for pineapple on pizza, but some people do. 47 percent voted for pineapple pizza, and I'm sure that pizza was someone's favorite pizza, but because of this system, the Majority told this 47 percent 'screw you, your pizza sucks, so nobody gets it now'. The article presented this as a fun little story, but I would be peeved if I liked that pizza, and they took it off the menu because 53 percent voted they didn't like it.
Something tells me the pizzeria did this to get publicity, but still it would be nice for people to decide for themselves what pizza they wanted instead of letting the majority decide what should be banned or not. Again, very trivial in the grand scheme of things, but does have some strong parallels to the political discourse of today. I'm not saying a republic is perfect, but at least we don't have the majority of our country voting pineapple pizzas to oblivion.