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I think its a case by case problem. Does a vote for obama legitimize the system? yea, does a vote for ron paul legitimize the system? Hell no. He was gonna bring all our boys home, hardly an endorsement of the status quo.
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So if I understand you correctly Brainpolice, voting is a poor strategy because it allows the state to shroud itself in a thin layer of legitimacy and also it would be impossible to vote for the suicide of the institution allowing you to vote? I guess the core of what I was getting at was the argument steph was making about the pointlessness of Ron
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Thanks that exactly answered it. And straight from rothbard himself haha. Morality is detached from voting in a coercive system.
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I've heard some anarcho capitalists say that they would never vote because voting is an endorsement for the system. By voting for the lesser of two evils you accepted the rule of the lesser. But isn't an anarchist still self interested? Can't he vote for the lesser merely because it betters his situation, but at the same time not wish to