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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
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billyjoeallen
on 21/01/2016, 21:46:54 UTC


While democracy does not directly account for intensity of desire, it has some indirect ways. For example, if the majority chooses laws that are too unfair to some minority, the latter may resort to crime to make ends meet, or to terrorism and other anti-social behavior, in spite of the penal deterrents against such acts.  Then the majority, if it is not too stupid, will usually ease the plight of that minority, enough to keep those reactions down to a tolerable level.

Huh What planet are you living on? In practice, the opposite more often occurs.  The majority who thinks they are morally right will not focus on the injustice suffered by the minority. They will focus on the crimes committed in reaction to that injustice.  Look at how every militant group in the U.S. from the Black Panthers to the KKK are treated.

A voter pays no immediate direct penalty for an uninformed vote. There is not sufficient incentive to become informed. To know this, all you have to do is look at election results throughout history. Why spend hours researching the relevant policy options and politicians when the chance of the election being decided by your one vote is infinitesimal? Voting is more useful for signaling your allegiance to a group.

Recognition of Natural Rights is enshrined in the U.S. Declaration of Independence. This may not be the case for other countries, but here it was used as a justification by the Founding Fathers to rebel against Mother England. If Natural Rights have no legitimacy, then our government is a criminal organization with no legitimacy either.

AngloSaxon law is based on two main concepts:
1. Common law that predates government that did not create it but recognizes it and enforces it.
2. The principle that "Governments derive their just power from the consent of the governed." This concept dates all the way back to 1215 when King John signed the Magna Carta.

Anarcho-capitalists do not want rulers, but that does not at all mean we don't want rules. In fact, we are the only group that consistently can apply Rule of Law because the alternative is a violence monopoly (central government) that creates, selectively interprets and enforces the very Rules that limit its power. That is Rule of Man, not Rule of Law.

Democracy is BY DEFINITION the domination of the minority by the majority. Politics is merely the art of convincing enough people to agree with you so that you can FORCIBLY impose your will on those who don't.