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Not all voting is anti-libertarian Mar 9, 2020

It's a very commonly heard opinion from anarcho-capitalists that because laws are enforced through aggression, therefore libertarians cannot in good conscience vote and must use other means to achieve liberty. While I wholeheartedly agree that voting is an ineffective means of furthering liberty and I don't plan to ever do it, it's completely wrong to say that it's against libertarian principles, because there's such a thing as voting against a new law or to repeal one, or for a candidate who wants to pass markedly fewer laws than his opponent. Let's say you can prevent a Nazi from killing an...

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Democracy is nihilism Mar 8, 2020

I regularly say that democracy is tyrannical because it grants others the right to impose anything they want on you as long as there's enough of them to vote it into law. Sometimes statists have replied to me that anarchy doesn't stop my neighbors from getting together and oppressing me, but this rebuttal completely misses the point. The difference between democracy and anarchy is not that democracy gives the majority the power to oppress a minority and anarchy doesn't, nor was that ever the argument being made. Obviously, regardless of social system it's advantageous to have a lot of people...

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