Voting is usurped authority. I do not have the right to govern you directly, so how could I have the right to delegate such rulership to someone else by any process whatsoever?
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Voting is usurped authority. I do not have the right to govern you directly, so how could I have the right to delegate such rulership to someone else by any process whatsoever?
You are too theoretical. Practical issue - how would you provide for the common defense? Or is it going to be every man, woman, and child for themselves?
If it is everyone for themselves, not much more to talk about. Hope it works out for you, and you never come up against an evil gang that doesnt like the color of your hair
If you agree that we should provide for the common defense, then you need mechanisms to make that happen in practical and efficient ways
hear hear*
You do know it is possible to organize voluntary associations, right? And what military threat do we face that wasn't first riled up by government foreign policy?
WHAT?!? sigh. Some people just prefer to be ignorantly governed and don't want any influence in the government I suppose. Carry on!
Hear hear
Not at all. Some of us reject the presumed legitimacy of government outright. Do you really think a vote every few years gives you real influence? Do you think the authority claimed by government agents is legitimate? If so, why?
I do not have the right to govern you, and you do not have the right to govern me. How can either of us then confer upon some third party the right to govern the other by proxy?
Insert social contact
How does that create a right to govern others? Society works through mutual voluntary consent, which is antithetical to the concept of government.
No that's WHAT government is. A mutual voluntary consent... A social contract
Ah. "Contract," not "contact." The social contract is a bad analogy that Rousseau came up with to excuse governmental aggression. It does not exist. I'll let the quote below cover the issue in depth.
". . . In regard to the so-called social contract, I have often had occasion to protest that I haven't even seen the contract, much less been asked to consent to it. A valid contract requires voluntary offer, acceptance, and consideration. I've never received an offer from my rulers, so I certainly have not accepted one; and rather than consideration, I have received nothing but contempt from the rulers, who, notwithstanding the absence of any agreement, have indubitably threatened me with grave harm in the event that I fail to comply with their edicts."—Robert Higgs
It's unspoken, that's why it's a social contract. If you walk along a sidewalk and see someone, your unspoken rule is to NOT fight him. Fighting him would lead to harm for you. You've made an instinctual contract with him to mutually exist on the sidewalk without fighting.
Similarly, governments instinctually provide for you and you instinctually be governed. If you disagree, feel free to start attacking police officers and see how instinctual it is to not attack police officers