Thursday 8 August 2013

Fptp is aggressive because it violates vote-ownership

We own our own vote and this means that no one but ourselves has the right to cast our vote for us. We have a vote each. The first past the post voting system tends to ignore this principle instead placing the power of the legislature in the hands to the two leading parties. This a result of the people trying to maximise the impact of their vote when there is only one winner. We own our own vote in the same sense that we own our own person. Other people do not have a right to control your person and they have no right to control your vote...as they do to some extent with the fptp system. With the fptp system the votes of the people are controlled to some degree by the leading parties because a vote for any of the smaller parties will be a wasted vote. To some degree we have no vote if we are only able to choose from between two parties. Physical aggression violates self-ownership and the first past the post system violates vote-ownership... that is to say that just as we own ourselves so too do we own our own vote. Fptp violates this vote-ownership and is a form of (democratic) aggression.

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