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The only reason contortions are involved is because you are inserting them to make the issue seem more complicated than it is. >People have a human right to pa
by mason240 12y ago
The only reason contortions are involved is because you are inserting them to make the issue seem more complicated than it is.
>People have a human right to participate in their government, too.
Which is a limit on government's power. That is the essence of the entire Enlightenment philosophy that all this is based.
- Frondo 12y agoBut the structures necessary to participate: someone's compelled to do something! Start from nothing, and try to build up a system that at all resembles a democracy, and you're compelling people left and right. Throw in property rights, such as land ownership, and you're compelling people just about 24/7. Just because you like being able to use the violence of the state to throw people off your lawn doesn't mean that it isn't compelling people to be in a certain place.