Re: What is the difference betwwen these two scenarios?
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Geez, if you're going to come up with a fantasyland edge case...
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So if 51% of the people want to kill the other 49%, it's just part of democracy, right?
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It's okay if you do it, though, right?
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You left out the important part when you quoted me. My edge case doesn't blow up in the system I'm advocating.
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And I don't think it's all that 'fantasyland' imagining a society where one person, or a small group of people, are able to get enough wealth to corrupt them and want power.
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"Enough wealth to corrupt them" is not what you said. You said "the vast majority of wealth."
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It happens all the time, with states and before there were states.
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So why is a state preferable, then? A state just gives these corrupt individuals a vehicle to wield their corrupt power with a varnish of "legitimacy" slapped on. You're making yet another argument using a case where the system you advocate fails more spectacularly than the system you're arguing against.
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