Voting is a great thing ... most of the time. Although of course when you put up say, basic human rights (and already we must pause and say: Define these please) ... well, I pretty sure some things shouldn't be put to a vote!

David Gerrold has a great bit in one of this books about a class room of students where the teacher asked "How can we determine the sex of this cat?" To which one of the kids suggested voting. The teacher agreed to this idea (probably just to demonstrate this very idea) and they all voted that the cat was a male, which they then named 'Pete'. Several weeks later, Pete had kittens. (The tag line to the story was "So much for Democracy.")