Sunday 17 February 2013

Crime is unpopular

Without democracy we cannot be free because either we will have totalitarianism (government without democracy) or we will have anarchy and no laws. If there is no government there are no laws and we cannot defend ourselves from criminals. If there is no government there will be no property rights and no justice. We require the state to prevent crimes and so we require democracy to be free from crimes. We will be subject to crimes either from the state or individuals if we do not have democracy. Democracy is the only thing which prevents crime. But the problem with fptp (as a form of democracy) is that we are able only to choose the least bad of two (usually bad) options... and this is not democracy. With true democracy we are able to represent ourselves as in the case of a referendum. A referendum is true democracy and for the same reasons so is pr. Pr is true democracy because people can vote directly on laws just as they can in a referendum. If we are represented in a just and accurate manner (as with pr) then our representative is voting on legislation as we would. So to have proportional representation is to have true representation. If we do not have proportional representation we do not have true representation and we are not represented. The two main parties do not represent us and so we can only be represented if we have pr. Anything other than pr is not representation and not democracy and since it is only democracy which enables us to be free from crime then we will be subject to crime wherever there is not pr. Only pr will prevent crime. First past the post does not prevent crime because whichever of the two main parties which gets elected is able to exploit the electorate due to the lack of true representation. With pr people can get what they want but with fptp the two main parties are able to take advantage of the lack of democracy and the people will not be protected from crime. The people will be vulnerable to crime if there is not proportional representation. Only pr will protect the people from crime.

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