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by notch656a 1373 days ago
IDK democracy is the best way to ensure prosperity and wealth. It's basically the idea that the 51% can rob the 49%. Preservation of wealth arguably can be better preserved if taking from the 49% results in their violent frustration of those efforts, and enabling that may require some constitutional republic, benevolent dictatorship/monarchy, or ancap kind of situation.
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I'd always rather the greater than 50% coalition have control than the less than 50% coalition. Just look at it from a numbers standpoint. If the vote is to "kill the other team" giving which group power does the least harm? The Majority.

And just because that vote can happen isn't a mark against the system. The three other forms of government you mentioned are all equally capable of that atrocity.

51% killing the 49% in iteration is 1% killing the 99%.

>The three other forms of government you mentioned are all equally capable of that atrocity.

If you ignore the psychological disadvantage of the killers having a monopoly on 'legitimate' violence. For instance, in some anarchistic type scenario there is at least the upper hand that everyone understands the aggression of others is not granted some philisophical legitimacy over their own, and people frustrating these efforts will know their defensive efforts are not philisophically disadvantaged. Moral is an important component of self defense. It is easier to push many people in the cattle car if they think a legitimate 'authority' of the government has spoken.

I like that your anarchy has government, the Ancaps on Reddit would like you.
>your anarchy has government

What are you referring to exactly?

Earlier I mentioned 'constitutional republic, benevolent dictatorship/monarchy, or ancap kind of situation.' Yes some of those include government.

>For instance, in some anarchistic type scenario
I don't see anything 'has government' related in your quote there so now I know you're just full of shit.