Editing Majority rule (section)

=== Cardinal rules ===
{{Main|Utilitarian rule|Cardinal utility|Rated voting}}

The [[utilitarian rule]], and [[Rated voting|cardinal social choice rules]] in general, take into account not just the number of voters who support each choice but also the intensity of their [[Preference (economics)|preferences]].

Philosophers critical of majority rule have often argued that majority rule does not take into account the [[intensity of preference]] for different voters, and as a result "two voters who are casually interested in doing something" can defeat one voter who has "dire opposition" to the proposal of the two,<ref>{{cite web |year=2005 |title=An Anarchist Critique of Democracy |url=http://www.thoughtcrime.org/writings/democracy.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20080429224620/http://www.thoughtcrime.org/writings/democracy.html |archive-date=2008-04-29 |access-date=2008-06-09}}</ref> leading to poor deliberative practice or even to "an aggressive culture and conflict";<ref>{{cite web |year=2005 |title=What's wrong with majority voting? |url=http://seedsforchange.org.uk/free/consens#wrong |access-date=2006-01-17 |work=Consensus Decision Making |publisher=Seeds for Change}}</ref> however, the [[median voter theorem]] guarantees that majority-rule will tend to elect "compromise" or "consensus" candidates in many situations, unlike plurality-rules (see [[center squeeze]]).