Democracy is a civilising influence

Anarchy (specifically a lack of democracy) would not bring safety if you are not safe under democracy. If what you want to do is rejected by the majority of people we can assume that what you want to do is a bad idea. Democracy is not offensive to good ideas. Democracy is not always offensive to bad ideas it is true but that is not the same problem. Just because democracy can tolerate some bad ideas doesn't mean it prevents freedom. Freedom is a good idea that is prevented by people not democracy. If democracy prevents freedom then people without democracy would be just as efficient at opposing it... perhaps more so.