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Janszoon 10-09-2017 12:19 PM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk (Post 1881148)
It's not resignation. Voting is actually harmful.

How?

OccultHawk 10-09-2017 12:26 PM

It's an expression of one's willingness to be governed when one should insist on being ungovernable instead.

It also lends legitimacy to a form of hierarchical oppression. The way that people have social conviction that voting is a civic duty demonstrates to me how insidious democracy really is. As far as I can tell its adherents are the most brainwashed people on earth.

Janszoon 10-09-2017 12:30 PM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk (Post 1881161)
It's an expression of one's willingness to be governed when one should insist on being ungovernable instead.

It also lends legitimacy to a form of hierarchical oppression. The way that people have social conviction that voting is a civic duty demonstrates to me how insidious democracy really is. As far as I can tell its adherents are the most brainwashed people on earth.

How does one "insist on being ungovernable"?

Frownland 10-09-2017 12:34 PM

Break laws that are unjust and spit at cops, duh.

OccultHawk 10-09-2017 12:37 PM

By not acknowledging others right to govern you and to resist when they try.

Won't work until enough people wake up.

Let me ask you something: In your mind is democracy as free as we can get? Could there be a day in the future when all government will be antiquated and abandoned altogether?

OccultHawk 10-09-2017 12:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland (Post 1881169)
Break laws that are unjust and spit at cops, duh.

Don't recognize laws as a governing force for your conduct and treat all people, including cops, with love and respect. Start by being a person who doesn't need to be governed.

Janszoon 10-09-2017 12:44 PM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk (Post 1881174)
Don't recognize laws as a governing force for your conduct and treat all people, including cops, with love and respect. Start by being a person who doesn't need to be governed.

That sounds a lot like not doing anything.

OccultHawk 10-09-2017 12:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon (Post 1881176)
That sounds a lot like not doing anything.

And I can do that from home!

Plankton 10-09-2017 12:48 PM

I'm doing it right now.

Trollheart 10-09-2017 01:11 PM

I'm curious: how would a society function without laws and without government? Wouldn't it be something along the lines of The Purge, but all the time instead of just one day?


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