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Ted Cruz is no libertarian
MattATatTat:
Can't participate in a system I find immoral...
Count me out.
Magnaniman:
--- Quote from: MattATatTat on May 10, 2016, 11:45:41 AM ---Can't participate in a system I find immoral...
Count me out.
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While I understand that sentiment, the truth of the matter is that you are participating, whether you want to or not. Try as you might, if you do something that they don't like, armed men will come for you.
I figure that spending 20 minutes every couple years to formally register my discontent is worth the time. If that hour and a half per decade ends up broadening the debate to include even slightly more freedom, I reckon that it's time well spent.
I think that you may also be underestimating the effect that your vote has on local offices, which really do affect your life in very measurable ways. For instance, if you vote in a sheriff that refuses to arrest drug offenders, that's a significant blow to the prison-industrial complex.
MattATatTat:
My problem with voting is not the outcome (or lack of) but the moral implications of what my "vote" represents. I'm literally an accessory to the government carrying out actions upon others (at my behalf) which I myself don't have a right to do as an individual when I vote. It goes against the moral beliefs I hold firm.
I have to personally be an example of what I want the world to be and to "vote" goes against pretty much everything I believe in.
This is no way is a slam against those who continue to vote, even those who vote 3rd party. I can understand the desire to work within the system...I felt that way with Ron Paul. Perhaps I'm just way too jaded and committed to the voluntaryist ideals?
AndrewG:
--- Quote from: MattATatTat on May 10, 2016, 11:45:41 AM ---Can't participate in a system I find immoral...
Count me out.
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THIS^^^ VERY THIS^^^
Saying that whether you participate in the system or not you're still participating is kinda like telling me, "So hey, listen... Cancer of the asshole or the dick hole. You have a CHOICE!" I 100% refuse to involve myself in a system so hopelessly broken and so unilaterally pitted against my moral code. I'll continue to fly under the radar and hope something happens to change it (say an earthquake swallowing Washington DC). I never expected to find so many people willing to "choose the lesser of two evils" in here. No judgement, just me stating my amazement. http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/anarchast
I recently listened to The Great Libertarian Trump Debate – Adam Kokesh vs. Richard Heathen on the Anarchast podcast. Richard seems to share the views of some people in here, which I find surprising.
MattATatTat:
--- Quote from: AndrewG on May 10, 2016, 06:17:43 PM ---
--- Quote from: MattATatTat on May 10, 2016, 11:45:41 AM ---Can't participate in a system I find immoral...
Count me out.
--- End quote ---
I never expected to find so many people willing to "choose the lesser of two evils" in here. No judgement, just me stating my amazement.
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Me as well...
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