| We libertarians gotta stop legitimizing the system...
Ethically, we cannot justify taking the public's money through taxation for our own salary.
Ethically, we cannot justify voting for or against a law which effects the public.(Although I would say that we can ethically vote to strike down regulations, as striking down regulations merely limits government's powers and therefore is actually giving the right to those sorts of things back to the populace.)
So this leaves us in a quandary, if we are elected, to be consistent in our ethics we must vote exactly as those who voted us in would have us vote. However, the system does not allow us to divide up our vote. Abstaining would not be respecting the wishes of our constituents. So really, participating in an election leaves us inconsistent in our ethics.
Therefore, we must concern ourselves instead with things like lobbying groups, pamphleteering, and seceding. To participate in the politicalsystem, is to legitimize government! |