RashyNullPlanet

More cannibals on parade:

The best way to change the system, then, is to stick your fingers in your ear and scream “IM NOT VOTING”

A very mature political system blooming in your utopia, for sure.

My response, in its entirety, because I’ve been following this prolific cannibal for some years now:

It’s amazing the presumptions that can be fit into a single sentence.

When did you stop having intercourse with livestock?

See?

You’re screeching that I’m ignoring reality, when, in fact, you’re the ostrich plowing your head into the sand. What are you afraid of? I’ve been dragging you around here by your eyeballs for some time now, and all you’ve managed to do is be another data point demonstrating that a person can be shown concepts but can’t be made to think.

You’re also assuming that I want to change “the system”. All I want from “the system” is for it to remove the muzzle of its gun from my back and let me go about my life without duress. I don’t care if “the system” continues apace, slowly withers, or inevitably blossoms into an orgy of cannibalism, as long as you and your fellow votistas leave me and my life the hell out of it.

Perhaps the dumbest assumption you’re making is that I aspire to some utopia. I don’t. Humans are fallible. Anything humans do will have flaws, however, when those flaws are instituted as centralized process and “law”, there is no escape. On the other hand, when those flaws are part of decentralized associations, they victimize many fewer people.

I would never presume to make decisions about your life. That’s part of why I don’t vote. I don’t know what’s best for you. Why would you do that to me? You have no way of knowing what’s best for me. Do you have the balls to make me comply with your decisions about my life in person?

Would you dare attempt to make me comply with your preferences for my life, face to face? There is only one answer to that question, and that answer defines you as human or cannibal.

As usual, I expect he’ll go out like a light

Many thanks to Billy, for much of the ammo to use against such creatures.

My comment, at Radley’s place, a few days ago:

?A vote is nothing more and always an attempt to push someone else around by electing a proxy to do the pushing.?

Yup. Voting voting is delegated coercion.

It?s also a despicably cowardly act. No one I?ve ever met has the audacity to personally do to their neighbors what a vote-fueled government does.

Would you approach your neighbor’s employer and demand a portion of his pay? Would you prevent someone from attempting to save his own life with an experimental drug? Would you have the balls to go to your neighbor’s house and use force to stop him from eating duck liver? Of course you wouldn’t. But voting lets you do those very things, without getting your hands dirty or risking your own hide.

SaltyPig recently points out that he wrote about this very thing five years ago:

When confronted directly with first-person moral decisions, most people are quick to answer in favor of liberty. So what happens somewhere between lemonade-stand-land and the modern state to make people such hooligans by proxy?

Voting is all about abdication of responsibility and delegation of coercion to impose mere preferences upon others.

I’ve been chipping away at the essays in Martin Luther King’s “Why We Can’t Wait” for a little while now. In “The Summer of Our Discontent”, King writes:

The old order ends, no matter what Bastilles remain, when the enslaved, within themselves, bury the psychology of servitude.

Very, very few voters I’ve met realize they’re selling themselves into slavery when they presume to make decisions about other people’s lives. They cast their vote, as if they believe it were some sacrament to impose their mere preferences on their neighbors.

I see no reason to hope that any of these votistas will ever recognize that they’re propping up a structure that is devouring them.

The old order will never end, so long as voters refuse to question what they’re doing to themselves and their neighbors.