Your obligation not to vote
Center for a Stateless Society
by Alex R. Knight III
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“No one has any ‘right,’ under ordinary everyday circumstances, to use violence or the threat thereof to control another’s life or property. In fact, each of us has a very serious moral obligation to not engage our fellow human beings in such a manner. Yet, cloak a cop or a tax collector or a politician in the magical, quantum-physics defying aura of government, and suddenly this becomes not only acceptable, but even commendable and necessary. Such is the intrinsic nature of the State. Thus, by voting in political elections, a voter implicitly endorses this kind of immoral and intellectually indefensible behavior by proxy. No, Mr. or Ms. Voter, it’s not you specifically who holds the gun to the taxpayer’s head, throws the marijuana smoker into the jail cell, imprisons the peaceful owner of a certain type of weapon for life — and it may not even be the series of politicians you voted for — but in essence, by voting, by casting that ballot for the continuation of government, you are hiring hit men (and women) to do those things for you.” (09/09/09)
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I’ve “learned” by banging my head on the proverbial wall that voting makes ZERO difference.
The incumbent duopoly has insulated themselves from change.
Maybe not voting will eventually tumble the state. Nothing else to date has worked.
Civil disobedience?
WarGames (1983) “A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?”
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