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Tag: voting
Words Poorly Used #62 — High Definition
In this age of “High Definition,” it is extremely ironic that people engage in voting, “democracy,” and politics, because there is no well-defined product. And even if there is a lumpy, stinking, shadowy by-product such as corruption, what means is there for an individual to withhold consent for this process? To paraphrase Sheldon Richman, if…
Traveling, Spooner #15, Fallacies in General
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Voluntaryism among Other Philosophies
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Movie View #6, Spooner #14, False Process
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Shopping
Nobody asked but … If your life was the equivalent of a trip to the supermarket, voting would be like choosing a shopping cart. The best you could hope for would be a half-way workable set of wheels, without too much suspect trash in the bottom of the basket. Kilgore
Convergence, J. B. Bury, Fallacy #17
Send him mail. “Finding the Challenges” is an original column appearing every other Wednesday at Everything-Voluntary.com, by Verbal Vol. Verbal is a software engineer, college professor, corporate information officer, life long student, farmer, libertarian, literarian, student of computer science and self-ordering phenomena. Archived columns can be found here. FTC-only RSS feed available here. Having just…
Anxiety Voluntaryist-Style II
Nobody asked but … The earlier post on this topic may be a legitimate use of Russell’s Teapot. In tomorrow’s column, Verbal Vol will explore the logic fallacy known as Russell’s Teapot in some quarters. I have suggested that we at least consider that this voting question may be an appropriate exception to the illogic. …
Anxiety Voluntaryist-Style
Nobody asked but … I am anxious to see a single example of voting proving to be a solution to any problem. Kilgore
Words Poorly Used #46 — Freedom
Wouldn’t William Wallace, aka Braveheart, be rolling over in his grave now? Contrary to popular misconception, Scotland’s people will not be voting on either freedom or independence. They will be voting on (and in the minds of some, submitting to) which government they will have — a.) British rule or b.) another state modeled on…