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Post subject: Pedantic Struggles: The All Encompassing Philosophy Thread™
Posted: Wed May 10, 2017 10:00 pm
An enigma of a man shaped hole in the wall between reality and the soul of the devil.
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 5:13 pm Posts: 39820 Location: 6000 feet beyond man and time.
Because politics in practice is so boring.
Classical liberal generally. I think at my core, I trend toward voluntaryism, but like all anarchist philosophies, it's fatally flawed and ridiculous when pushed to the extreme. Talking to actual voluntaryists make me want to build a wall, though.
I might be open to Georgism, despite my loathing of most socialist concepts. Paying rent sucks.
Post subject: Re: political ideology/philosophy Thread
Posted: Tue May 16, 2017 8:53 pm
An enigma of a man shaped hole in the wall between reality and the soul of the devil.
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 5:13 pm Posts: 39820 Location: 6000 feet beyond man and time.
Surely there is a better system out there than democracy. It really is just mob rule. And the ability of hundreds of millions of people to make the best choice, or even a better than terrible one, is next to impossible. We just had an election between Trump and Hillary, for God's sake. And Trump won.
Forcing the majority's will on the minority is no more morally justified than the opposite.
Let's devise a replacement. It all starts here on RM.
Post subject: Re: political ideology/philosophy Thread
Posted: Tue May 16, 2017 8:55 pm
post-structuralist
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 2:22 pm Posts: 4377 Location: faked by jorge
BurtReynolds wrote:
Surely there is a better system out there than democracy. It really is just mob rule. And the ability of hundreds of millions of people to make the best choice, or even a better than terrible one, is next to impossible. We just had an election between Trump and Hillary, for God's sake. And Trump won.
Forcing the majority's will on the minority is no more morally justified than the opposite.
Let's devise a replacement. It all starts here on RM.
my dad would always say democracy is the worst form of government out there, except for all the other ones
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Post subject: Re: political ideology/philosophy Thread
Posted: Tue May 16, 2017 10:55 pm
Looks Like a Cat
Joined: Wed April 20, 2016 7:11 pm Posts: 14265
LoathedVermin72 wrote:
Land ownership is an antiquated concept
I'm excited to hear about this.
_________________ "The fatal flaw of all revolutionaries is that they know how to tear things down but don't have a f**king clue about how to build anything."
Surely there is a better system out there than democracy. It really is just mob rule. And the ability of hundreds of millions of people to make the best choice, or even a better than terrible one, is next to impossible. We just had an election between Trump and Hillary, for God's sake. And Trump won.
Forcing the majority's will on the minority is no more morally justified than the opposite.
Let's devise a replacement. It all starts here on RM.
Democracy is the only system of any merit. But democracy comes in many variations. If the US wanted to, there are plenty of other ways it could fill the congress. The first past the post voting system, means that it is very difficult for a third or a fourth party to emerge. "The majority is always wrong, the minority is rarely right." Which means that even in a democracy, if only the majority have a say, then it can easily turn into a tyranny of the majority.
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