Voting Is Begging For Stolen Goods
Channel: Voluntary Virtues Network
Date: 2014-10-09

Voting tends to strike a sensitive chord with many people because they affirm, “Your vote is your voice! Make your voice heard! Show your support for Democracy!”

Now I can certainly understand the importance of voting in a family of 5 people, a group of 10 people, or perhaps even a group of 15 or 20 people. In such small groups it is indeed vital to voice your opinion. The groups are small and intimate. Each person involved knows quite well the temperament of the other individuals in the group and elaborations can be made to explain voting a particular way. Therefore this can be quite an effective method of coming to decisions in such small groups. However once the population of a society swells to the thousands, hundreds of thousands, or millions this process becomes laughable and quite absurd. At these gargantuan numbers the probability for one’s vote to be heard or even make a difference is infinitesimal indeed. It is sheer folly for one to devote any mental energy to such an insignificant decision.

Let us assume, for the moment, the genuinely unrealistic assumption that voting actually makes a difference. We must now consider what one is indeed supporting by one’s active participation in the political process. “Government” can be defined as the monopoly on initiated aggression over a given geographical region, which is financed by the stolen funds of taxation and legitimized by the belief in the myth of the authority. The only difference between “government” and the mafia is size. The only difference a politician and a mob boss is the former is given the moral right to rule over others. The only difference between a threat backed by violence and a law is the latter is given societal acceptance and approval. If this is the type of institution to which moral and decent people support, then I am sincerely beginning to question the morality and decency of my fellow man.

The true test of a moral code is its universality. If something is wrong for me to do something then it must be wrong for you to do the exact same thing. There are no exemptions from the inviolable laws of morality. Fear and run from the man who claims to be the exception for he is attempting to sell you a clever and well-packaged set of lies.

http://peacefulanarchism.com/voting-is-begging-for-stolen-goods/

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