Dear Paul,

I am well aware that in an ideal democracy laws should reflect the wishes of the majority. However, an ideal democracy would also only apply to groups of people who freely chose to associate and have this arrangement between them.

This is not the situation: here, someone declared without your consent that whether you like it or not, you and JBowyer belong to the same "nation" and are thus tied and locked to each other in a cruel game.

Suppose you have practically nothing in common with JBowyer, suppose s/he feels that dog-racing is the most important essence without which life is not worth living - while you feel similarly about your homosexual relationship (just an example): why the hell should JBowyer be allowed to deny you this which you value above all else, just because he happens to have a larger family, more friends or breeds more children to increase his/her number of votes?

Assuming JBowyer is not personally/physically hurt by your homosexual practices and assuming you are not personally/physically hurt by his/her dog-racing, what right have any of you to deny the other's lifestyle?

We all do the wrong thing from time to time, but this does not authorise others to force themselves on us uninvitedly, self-appointing themselves as our moral-guardians and saviours.

Steele, Is Mise has applied to 179 countries for asylum, with 179 knock backs. He went close with North Korea, but when Kim Jong-un found out Is Mise was a Bob Borsak supporter he said "No, no, not here, no one in North Korea who support such crazy politician, with very wacko policy, he more crazy than me!"

Yuyutsu, our democratic system is far from perfect, but I can live with it. Your line is interesting but I'll stick with what we have. If the majority feel that strongly about Baird's actions then they can deliver judgement at the next election. I am confident he has the overwhelming support of the community on this issue. Only a few cruel die hard's like the animal killer Is Mise, and the elephant killer himself Borsak, people who take perverse pleasure in seeing animals suffer pain, along with the less than 1% of ratbags from the blood sports of hunting and greyhound torture will be in opposition.