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Old 11-11-2006, 03:49 AM
Keith Keith is offline
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Yes, I voted. It's a legal requirement to do so in my country.

In the context of the US, if you don't want to vote for either of the two main parties why not vote for someone else? I believe you even have write-in votes if none of the candidates grabs you?

Incidentally, your electoral system seems grossly unfair to me. In Australia we can vote for the party or individual we really want to see elected, and if they don't get in our vote then trickles down to our designated 'lesser evil' party. This seems a lot more reasonable ; we're not forced to choose between the person we really want to vote for and the 'lesser evil' - we can vote "both - in that order".

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Originally Posted by KevinG View Post
Can you give me an example of a state our country which uses anarchy as its form of government? Can you then give me an example of any time in history where anarchy has produced a non-violent society, or perhaps just a reason as to why anarchy would lead to non-violence?
According to Google, there are historical examples but I'm more interested in future examples.

The more I think about this issue, the more it seems to me that:
(a) a successful Anarchy would naturally emerge from a population of Awakened/Fully Conscious people; and
(b) Without a population of Fully Conscious people Anarchy is unlikely to work.

Imagine collecting together 1,000 (or 100,000 or 10,000,000!) people like Steve Pavlina. Can you imagine them degenerating into chaos? I know I can't...
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Last edited by Keith : 11-11-2006 at 04:12 AM. Reason: Forgot a bit. :)
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