If democracy is good then fptp is bad... but some might argue that democracy is not good and so then fptp is justified. But this is a false argument. Fptp (whilst not being fully democratic) is still a form of democratic government. If you are against proportional representation on the grounds that it is democratic then you would be obliged to reject fptp for the same reasons. If pr is bad then fptp is bad as well.
People (who support government) who hate pr must support fptp otherwise they are against democracy altogether... in which case they are anarchists. There is no reason for an anarchist to oppose pr if the alternative is fptp. Only people who like fptp for reasons other than it being anti-democratic have a reason to dislike pr but there are no such reasons. If we assert that the alternative to pr is fptp (and not anarchy) then there is no reason to reject pr. If there is an alternative to democracy then fptp could be justified. Fptp is not justified since there is no alternative to democracy... or even if there is the point is redundant since we are arguing within the confines of an assumed democracy.
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