Monday 21 January 2013

There is no reason for anarchists to prefer fptp

If government is not good then there is no point having elections and elections should be illegal. But without government it becomes difficult to see how we can get (objective) property rights... without government there is no absolute authority which means there is no authority and we rely on people not doing bad things. Whilst this may work it is also possible to make a case for democracy. With democracy we can absolutely define property rights to be those chosen by the government. Without government property rights are arbitrary and so absent. With government we can have property rights and a true definition of crime. Government enables the justified prosecution of crimes. Assuming we want government then it makes sense to use pr because otherwise people will not be able to vote for whom they like. If it is good to have government then further it is better to have pr than fptp because it enables people to have even more control over their government. If government is not good then it is still not easy to find a justification for fptp. Fptp is not anarchy. If government is not good then we (again) would want to have pr so that the people are able to control the malign government. Whether government is good or it is not good it is better to have pr than fptp. Fptp is never preferable to pr.

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