&gt; let two wolves and one sheep elect what the dinner will be<p>First of all, one important rule of democracy is that you cannot vote about stripping someone&#x27;s right in democracy (or alternatively, the democratic decisions have to be reversible), otherwise you will get Russell-style paradoxes. The existence (or not) of democracy itself cannot be decided democratically; this is often neglected but nevertheless important rule.<p>Second, your example is unrealistic. There are far less wolves then sheep in the real world (literally!). In the real world, this is not really a big concern, because you wouldn&#x27;t want to live in society where are more wolves than sheep anyway.. Almost every social technology (including evolved human cooperation) is predicated on this being false.<p>Of course, there are other things that are important for society and orthogonal to democracy - as you mention, for example, rule of law. But I disagree with rule of law you&#x27;re safe from government actions - the state is typically the actor who enforces the law. So I very much disagree with the sentence &quot;Rule of Law gives you a safe life (at least from governmental actions).&quot; I would like to see an example of society where this is true due to it not being democratic; since democracy effectively gives you control over government actions.