“Pragmatists”: Who’s Gonna Pick the Cotton!?

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Saying that societal models based on consent and voluntary interaction are unfeasible and unrealistic, and thus impossible, is the same conversation had hundreds of years ago in the agricultural industry:

I know holding slaves is wrong, but the reality is that slavery is real, and the agricutural industry needs the work to be done, or thousands will suffer and the industry will collapse. Without the slaves, who would pick the cotton?

The answer? It doesn’t fucking matter.

Societal systems based on ISO (individual self-ownership) are not only infinitely more practical (do you know of any successful economy based solely on an authoritarian system of value?) more importantly—and this is the critical issue—societal systems based on the perceived “necessity” of violence are always morally wrong, and unethical.

That is, unless you think violating non-violent people is okay.

~KafkA

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Graham Smith is a Voluntaryist activist, creator, and peaceful parent residing in Niigata City, Japan. Graham runs the "Voluntary Japan" online initiative with a presence here on Steem, as well as DLive and Twitter. (Hit me up so I can stop talking about myself in the third person!)

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