Wednesday 30 October 2013

Justice is authoritarian

People like to prevent crime but in order to do so we require a government and an authoritarian system of courts. Because justice doesn't work without some kind of authority we can say that justice is authoritarian and statist. And since people like peace and justice any prevention of democracy will lead to less justice because this will mean that the (anti-crime) intentions of the people are thwarted. People are instinctively authoritarian (and statist) and so then any lessening of democracy as with the first past the post system will tend to reduce crime prevention. First past the post (fptp) helps to protect the criminal because it is a threat to democracy and the state. Democracy strengthens the crime-preventing aspects of the state and so then fptp weakens the state in this sense (it might help other aspects of the state).

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