Women Shouldn’t Be allowed To Vote

The right to vote

I think the “right” to vote (in government elections) should be taken away from women. It should be taken away from men too. (The NYTimes will undoubtedly quote me only on the first of these two preceding sentences).  We should only vote on occasions in which we have all agreed to be bound by the decision of the majority. The next major U.S. election will take place on November 2016. But, have we all agreed to be bound by its results? Hardly. (Anyone who doubts this should read Lysander Spooner’s “No Treason”). In sharp contrast when the chess club votes on whether to meet on Tuesdays or Wednesdays, and all participants have agreed to be bound by the results of the election, then this is a valid one.

Stereotyping,

“libertarian” from us. Should we oppose this? In my own view, it is far more important to maintain the word “libertarian,” then to regain “liberal.”

As I write, the Libertarian Party (LP) is holding its convention to select a president and vice presidential candidate for the coming election. Some of these “libertarians” favor anti-discrimination laws that compel religious people to officiate at gay weddings, and Jews to bake cakes for Nazis; this, of course, is incompatible with a core principle of libertarianism, free association.  No one should be forced to associate with anyone against his will. Some favor the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Others attack another core principle of libertarianism, the non-aggression principle (NAP). In contrast, the sole libertarian objection to rape, kidnapping, slavery, is that they violated the law of free association and the NAP. William Weld, former governor of Massachusetts, no libertarian he, is a leading candidate for the vice presidential candidacy of the LP. Here is what Murray Rothbard and others had to say about the libertarian credentials of some of these candidates. With “libertarians” like these, we need not fear the likes of Noam Chomsky seizing the honorific word “libertarian” from us. The LP will do it for us, thank you very much.

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