I could not agree more. I might add that people usually forget that in protecting the rights of minorities (both people and opinion) they are, infact, helping protect themselves.

If minorities are not protected eventually even most of the majority begind to suffer as well.. as power shifts they begin to find that they themselves are in a minority that the power holders do not find appropriate. Slippery slopw thinking .. yes. I can't think of how it's fallacious , though.

Hermaphrodite with attitude!