Democracy is the means by which the people are able to protect themselves and their property form the state. And so then if there is not sufficient democracy the state will be able to violate the rights of the people. If we assume that property rights are derived from the state then without adequate democracy the people will be subject to violations of their property... which is crime. Democracy protects the people from crime... perpetrated either by the state in the form of communism or by individual criminals. It is the state which we expect to protect us from crime in a democracy and so then if democracy is compromised then so too is our property compromised. Democracy is synonymous with strong property rights and so then the more democratic the state in which we live the better the property rights. If we do not have fully-proportional elections then we do not have the most strong property rights possible. A lack of democracy (such as first past the post) is helpful to criminals either public (the government) or private.
Property rights are synonymous with democracy and so then the most democratic system (proportional representation) will preserve property to the greatest extent. To support the first past the post (fptp) system is to damage democracy and damage property rights.
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