Friday 5 April 2013

There is no reason to reject pr

Good people do not support fptp... many claim to be in support of fptp because it protects the two-party system and as a result this protects freedom. But freedom is not protected by protecting the two-party system unless to protect the government is to protect freedom which is an oxymoron. We do not hear the same arguments being made in favour of communism or outright dictatorship that we might hear for fptp because they are plainly wrong. To claim that a dictatorship is necessary to protect the people from the tyranny of democracy is not a common argument but similar claims are often made for fptp. There is no good reason to support fptp over pr just as there is no good (legitimate) reason to support a dictatorship. There is no reason to have a dictatorship and there is no reason not to have pr other than precedent.

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