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I live by convictions, not what everybody in the majority happens to think. Or not.
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I can agree. But I also recognize that a government of the people will necessarily respond to the majority. It is through reliance on the decency of people that the majority doesn't just jail everyone else (at a hyperbolic extreme). But it requires a majority to do anything. And sometimes it takes compromise between two or more minorities to achieve a majority.
If there is no majority — by a single group or a collection of groups — then nothing happens. But with a majority, things can, and often do, happen.
And when we are in the majority, we like what happens. But when we are in the minority, we don't like what happens.
But either way, we are not the only ones who comprise the right (correct) or only reasonable course of action. And we are not the only reasonable people on the continent. And all of the reasonable persons do not agree on everything. And, unfortunately, the unreasonable (and ignorant) are part of what helps make almost any group into the majority on any particular issue at any particular moment.