[themacguffinman]

Democracy and the state is not designed for gatekeeping, if that's what you were implying. American democracy was especially designed to counter tyranny-of-the-majority dynamics where society just collectively decides to take away rights. America does not just concede to whatever "everyone's interests" are, its Supreme Court is empowered to strike down popular, democratically legislated laws that violate fundamental rights. There are high profile examples of this like the recent gun laws in New York that were struck down.

America's founders never fully trusted democratic institutions/structures to do the right thing and I don't either. And the problem isn't "not enough democracy", homosexuality would have been considered wrong by practically any electorate in the not-so-ancient past regardless of whatever "democratic ways" or magically corruption-free democratic structures you come up with.

No one, not you and not any democratic majority, gets to make these difficult choices on others' behalf. If people want these structures to aid them, then they can seek them out themselves, you don't get to force it upon them. If you think people aren't informed enough, then inform them, you don't get to bypass them and just assume you know better. It's disingenuous to portray this as structural "aid" when it's not optional.

Posing examples like slavery where the freedom to own slaves conflicts with individual freedom is hardly relevant. When they clash, the individual freedom wins out based on principle, not because not-owning-slaves is democratically popular. America fought a war over it, they didn't just ask for a vote. On principle, I do think anyone should be allowed to sell organs.