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A fallacy and metafallacy where one argues that slavery is acceptable if a majority votes for it, that atrocities are justified if a majority supports them, that abuses are legitimate if they have popular backing. The Majoritarian Fallacy confuses descriptive fact (many people want this) with normative justification (this is therefore right)—and worse, uses majority support to immunize atrocities from critique. It's the logic behind "if it was so bad, why did everyone go along with it?" and "democratically elected authoritarianism is still democracy" and "the people have spoken." The fallacy lies in treating majority preference as moral warrant, as if numbers could transmute exploitation into legitimacy, as if counting hands could launder blood. It's a metafallacy because it preemptively delegitimizes critique—challenging the atrocity becomes challenging the people, questioning the majority becomes questioning democracy itself.
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