Selection panel: What was Makras' relationship with democracy?O.P: He realised fairly early in life that few people thought much further than their own pleasures, pains, and reliefs. When they spoke of justice and equality, it was not in the same way as he did. For them justice meant justice for themselves. They might extend this self-interest to a few other people on whom their own happiness depended, but it rarely extended far. For them equality merely meant that no-one should have more than them. And so he joked that everyone was for inheritance taxes, only they would all set the threshold just a little above what they expected to inherit. He was saddened to find that so few people really cared about anyone except themselves. This meant that all politics was little more than lobbying
