> Maybe I think hookers should be a priority; sex is correlated with good health. You wouldn't mind if I took a couple hundred from you for my health would you?
Well, different priorities, and that’s fine.
But, let’s assume in a democracy, the majority of people decide to vote for free hookers and blow for everyone, why not :)
>But, let’s assume in a democracy, the majority of people decide to vote for free hookers and blow for everyone, why not :)
Majority of _what_ people. The majority of people within my square mile? This continent? The majority of people in my house? I merely reduce down 'democracy' to its logical smallest element, the individual. I vote what I will spend my earnings on, and as the only voter my vote wins. Of course, my vote has no effect on obligation of others, as they are not part of my own 'democracy.'
Very few people want a pure democracy. Pure democracy is 5 people in a house, and 4 vote to beat the shit out of the fifth. Pure democracy is when 60% whites vote to make blacks their slaves. Pure democracy is voting to intern the Japanese in camps.
Voting is fine, involuntary extraction of resources from others is not.
Well, different priorities, and that’s fine.
But, let’s assume in a democracy, the majority of people decide to vote for free hookers and blow for everyone, why not :)