Democracy in and of itself is not inherently considerate of man's inalienable rights. If a group of people decide to strip you of your right to live merely on the basis of majority vote, that's democracy in action. Majority rule is prescriptivism by way of the ballot. A mob with extra steps, if you will. It's not bound by legal precedent or logic. It can so far as to invent fictions to justify its existence.

Democracy must be tempered with the recognition of individual rights. That, regardless of what the majority hold or believe, the individual has the sole prerogative to go far as his own ability allows him and on his own terms.