Democracy versus Unanimous Rule

A government will be based on one of three different types of rule: minority rule, majority rule ("democracy"), or unanimous rule. I support democracy. Please let me defend democracy against one criticism. Some people claim that democracy necessarily means “unlimited democracy”, something which, they believe, led to the mass killing of Stalin and Pol Pot. But these people are confusing democracy with an attempt to bring about unanimous rule. Unanimous rule is based on the idealistic, romantic notion that there can be created a social order in which nobody ever disagrees with or resents or hates any other person. Democracy, rather, is based on the belief that people will always disagree with each other or possibly resent or hate one another. Democracy is used as a way of coping peacefully with this.