Against the voting-as-self-defense argument, Wendy McElroy points out that by voting "defensively," one is not simply choosing a lesser evil for oneself, but for one's neighbors as well. A libertarian may properly decide for himself, that a candidate's being wrong on immigration and abortion are forgivable if someone is as strongly correct on foreign policy and banking as Paul is. But how can he make that decision for his daughter? For his wife? For everyone else's wives and daughters? Not to mention all the hard-working illegal humans Paul wants to round up and send into exile.

Therefore, how can a good anarchist defend himself and his family against these "self-defense" voters, other than by pointing out their error?

But there's something else that's begun to worry me lately: when Paul fails to win the nomination, who are the cultists going to blame?

--Scott Bieser
Annoying my betters since 1957
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