Democracy and rape

Different people want different things. sometime these differences if opinion are based on misunderstanding it factual practical disagreement and can be resolved. i.e: how to structure healthcare so as to save most lives. Other times, there are differences in first principles but differing principles lead to the same practical preferences and all is well. Most times (given the size of the space of possible utility functions and the consequent low likelihood of overlap(Hersey: evolutionary or unknown forces could select for a certain subset of util functions which have a great deal in common)), there are differences stemming from different first premises which cannot be resolved. What to do?

Option 1: kill the others or force them to do as you wish. Consequence: might is right, the strong impose their values on the weak. Other consequence: death and war. Bad.

Option 2: vote. The more numerous (presume equivalent to stronger) side wins and gets to do what it wants. The weaker side (assuming no perfectly unchanging voting blocks) gets a few concessions. Result: as above but both sides are better off. Less killing/death for both & strong still get what they want. (Even if strong don't mind killing, mind getting killed) (if killing is something strong value, this doesn't work. Still assuming baseline human preferences rather than taking about while utility space and all the craziness therein. )

In short: democracy, assuming ceteris paribus, is strictly superior to violence. (Many simplifications)(remember, i'm working from value neutral perspective where all roughly (human) utility functions are equal.

This leads to the question:

Question: would be okay with a democracy where rape is legal.

Answer. Hard to say. Maybe. Rational answer appears to be yes but there are many complications from my personal deontological ethical framework (corrupted software justification) to democracy being an imperfect mechanism of expressing individual preferences.

Short version: I think that ask else equal, democracy is a good way to resolve first principles based disagreements because don't see any better alternatives.