Saturday 19 October 2013

Without democracy we have dictatorship

If anarchy is not possible then we need a government but there are many different kinds of government. Principally governments can either be democratic or undemocratic. If anarchy is impossible then we might think of government as a necessary evil and so then we would want to make it as democratic as possible. For a government to not be democratic is equivalent to a dictatorship which is a crime because it is a form of government which is not democratic. To have a government which is not democratic is similar in nature to slavery in that the people are owned without their permission. At least with democracy the objects of the state (the people) are able to in some sense refuse. They cannot refuse on an individual level but they can refuse collectively which is as much as is possible. Democracy is like a free market in that people can refuse what they are being offered and in contrast dictatorship is like communism in that people cannot refuse. Dictatorship is a crime because (we must assume) government is a requirement and to have less democracy than is possible is a form of slavery since it is through democracy that the people are able to free themselves from the state. Without democracy we have dictatorship which is a form of slavery and a violation of our natural rights and a crime. Dictatorship is a crime because it is possible to have democracy and clearly democracy is more liberal than dictatorship (the people have a choice). Democracy is more liberal than dictatorship and so then we can deduce that dictatorship is a crime.

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