[lumberjack]

A co z inną sytuacją, dziwniejszą, kiedy większość obywateli ustanawia prawo, które pozwala na topienie czarownic w rzece? Taka sytuacja jest oczywiście możliwa, ale tylko wtedy, kiedy większość obywateli składa się z idiotów.

A tak a propo, bo właśnie sobie czytam o starożytnej Ateńskiej demokracji... słyszeliście o thargeliach? Takie ateńskie święto:

Thargelia (Greek Θαργήλια was one of the chief Athenian festivals in honour of the Delian Apollo and Artemis, held on their birthdays, the 6th and 7th of the month Thargelion (about May 6 and May 7). [...]
but the most important ritual was the following. Two men, the ugliest that could be found (the Pharmakoi) were chosen to die, one for the men, the other (according to some, a woman) for the women. Hipponax of Kolophon claims that on the day of the sacrifice they were led round with strings of figs on their necks, and whipped on the genitals with rods of figwood and squills. When they reached the place of sacrifice on the shore, they were stoned to death, their bodies burnt, and the ashes thrown into the sea (or over the land, to act as a fertilizing influence).