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Actually, I can reasonably argue that. We get the government the majority wants (subject to filtering by the property holding oligarchy). I would much rather
by parasubvert 11y ago
Actually, I can reasonably argue that. We get the government the majority wants (subject to filtering by the property holding oligarchy). I would much rather have that than a libertarian dystopia, which would be pure oligarchy in practice.
- snitko 11y agoThat's not an argument. That's a preference to which you'd like to forcefully subject people who disagree with you.
- parasubvert 11y agoIt was an argument: it had premises and a conclusion. The premises happen to disagree with yours. The premise might expose a preference but that's because we are debating politics, wherein at some points up the chain of logical reasoning, one needs to pick preferences among conflicting principles.