Re: Don’t Vote

Spewing fallacy again.

You list failures of Government and then suggest they are instead free market failures.
Not the least unusual nor atypical.

Regard$,
--MJ

If to prevent trade were to stimulate industry
and promote prosperity, then the localities
where he was most isolated would show the first
advances of man. The natural protection to home
industry afforded by rugged mountains-chains,
by burning deserts, or by seas too wide and
tempestuous for the frail bark of the early
mariner would have given us the first glimmerings
of civilization and shown its most rapid growth.
But, in fact, it is where trade could best be
carried on that we find wealth first accumulating
and civilization beginning. It is on accessible
harbors, by navigable rivers and much traveled
highways that we find cities arising and the
arts and sciences developing.
  -- Henry George, Protection or Free Trade 1886




At 01:48 PM 11/2/2010, you wrote:

Well, how, "Moonbattery" of Mr. Kinsella!
 
"Argorist"??  I had to go and look up the term, which means, "Anarcho-Capitalist".  
 
No rules of law,  just a free market.   Hmmmmm.....Wonder how that will work out?
 
See Robber Barons, Soviet Nomenclatura, Bhopal India,  Bernie Madoff,  et. al;
 


 
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 12:14 PM, MJ <michaelj@america.net> wrote:

Don't Vote

by Stephan Kinsella on November 2, 2010

A relative in Singapore called and said "Happy Election Day." Somewhat in jest. I have relatives and friends begging me to vote this time–Republican of course–"to kick those Marxists out of office." Yes, to replace them with the Republicans, who a few years ago started two wars, added Medicare Prescription socialism, and began the Bankster Bailouts. Yeah.

Last year I took my 6-year old with me to the polls and let him watch me cast a blank ballot. But a friend on Facebook recently admonished me:

Any participation in the voting process, even casting a blank ballot in protest, is acknowledging, perpetuating, and giving legitimacy to the state and its system.

Withdraw from the state. Don't vote at all. Embrace agorism. Spread freedom like a virus.

And of course the anti-voting position is common among many anarchist libertarians. 1 I'm still not completely convinced that it's immoral or unlibertarian to vote–especially just casting a blank ballot–but I'm leaning in that direction; and I certainly think there is no duty to vote. One libertarian I know thinks that while it's problematic to vote for a candidate for a given office, it's less problematic to vote on a ballot measure or law itself (like legalizing drugs or lowering taxes). Not sure, but I don't think I'm going to vote today.

Endnotes

See Wendy McElroy's various articles and resources, such as Why I Would Not Vote Against Hitler, The Good Intentions Paving Company, Act Responsibly: Don't Vote!, Anti-voting Resources; also John Roscoe and Ned Roscoe, Don't Vote: 20 Practical Reasons; Carl Watner, Non-Voting; George H. Smith, The Ethics of Voting; John Pugsley, Harry, Don't Run!. But see  R.W. Bradford, Voting Is No Sin. [ ]

http://www.libertarianstandard.com/2010/11/02/dont-vote/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+thelibertarianstandard+%28The+Libertarian+Standard%29&utm_content=FaceBook

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