Please don't vote because democracy is a local optimum

And voting adds legitimacy to it.

Thank you.

#annoyedbymotivatedcognition

And voting adds legitimacy to it.

Thank you.

#annoyedbymotivatedcognition

Wait democracy doesn't lead to bloodbaths? Remind me again how democracy actually spread around the world in the past 200 years. Oh sure once everyone is X there won't be any war or much less war than otherwise, but that is a pretty lame reason to adopt X no?

Also you say dictatorship like its a terminally bad thing instead of an instrumentally bad thing. I don't even think that, I sometimes for the heck of it enjoy thinking no true dictatorship is a bad thing, like no true democracy is a bad thing. Oh you really should read the last paragraph from the linked section for maximum lulz.

Also what is this collapse you speak of? Collapse of democracy? Civilization? Well sure democracy has the nasty flaw of being an unsafe vehicle to crash in, I mean you could get Hitler or worse Communism, but it will crash eventually.

Replace it with something stable and more friendly to liberty like monarchy, its been done before. Maybe not so much a controlled demolition but a gradual evacuation is in order? Lets see if enough people vote their love of democracy with their feet to keep them running if we had a 1000 charter cities trying out alternatives. Indeed I bet if you set up a cloned Singapore or forty next to Greece or Spain or Mexico or Britain those democracies would have a very hard time running pretty soon.

Wait democracy doesn't lead to bloodbaths? Remind me again how democracy actually spread around the world in the past 200 years

This varies a fair bit from country to country. For example, in Great Britain, democracy came about from a slow evolution of government (even as there were intermittent revolutions most of the governing system stayed largely intact). In some countries (such as France) the process was decidedly more bloody and went back and forth. In other cases such as the US, there was a war with a goal of independence, and democracy came about... (read more)

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I'm not even defending democracy, it has been looking worse to me recently, but... if democracy gives even a slight advantage in quality of life/human development over a bad autocracy that would've been likely to exist in its stead, then, utility-wise, even the bloodiest wars/revolutions that brought said "democracy" to a country must've been worth it! (E.g. a democratically imposed land reform that lifts the peasants out of poverty could easily be worth killing 0.1% of the population.) Or are you trying to pin even the general destabilization of the world order on democracy too? (Genocides, etc committed by a democracy are not an argument, unless you can argue that a counterfactual autocratic regime wouldn't have done the same or worse.)

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