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  • What Is Democracy? Part One: Democracy Is Slavery

    This is part one in a three part series: democracy is slavery, democracy is impossible and democracy is liberty. Democracy Is Slavery By the phrase "democracy is slavery", I refer to the tyranny that inevitably arises from the principles of majoritarianism and communalism. One standard definition...
    Posted to Brainpolice by Brainpolice on Sun, Mar 16 2008
    Filed under: Ethics, Universality, Consistancy, Utilitarianism, Collectivism, Majoritarianism, Democracy, Individual Sovereignty, Consent, Slavery
  • Re: Moral vs Hierarchical obligations

    The following is a response to this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoXjrlxDSL4 Dear Mr1001Nights, Unchosen positive obligations are indeed slavery, which should be obvious because the obligations are not chosen. In claiming or bestowing unchosen positive obligations onto other people, you are the...
    Posted to Brainpolice by Brainpolice on Thu, Feb 28 2008
    Filed under: Anarchism, Ethics, Self-interest, Rational Egoism, Consent, Slavery, Human Nature
  • Liberty as a Lack of Unchosen Positive Obligations

    And a lack of a gaurantee of survival and flourishing There are two fundamental ways in which liberty and rights can be defined. One definition of liberty is the freedom to use one's faculties in order to persue one's rational self-interest without infringement by others. This is a negativistic...
    Posted to Brainpolice by Brainpolice on Wed, Jan 23 2008
    Filed under: Ethics, Discrimination, Altruism, Individual Sovereignty, Consent, Libertarianism, Philosophy
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