Let's put it this way. If you are part of a small democracy in which you have an equal vote with 10 other people, and 9 of them vote against you to take your stuff, that doesn't make it any less theft because the process was democratic.
This principle doesn't change because we're dealing with larger numbers. It's still the majority voting to take the property away from the minority.
yeah but you are leaving out why they are deciding this, and how you got the stuff in the first place. i would say it's a collective decision to allocate resources for the public good.
Mam, if you dont constent to this it shouldnt be applicable.
No amount of 3 mens grunts and growls negates the other 2 mens autonomy.
If you believe that the collective good should be upheld over that of the individual then you only destroy others property en lieu of this utopian vision of an arbitrary " collective" that doesnt actually exist and only then becomes one group of individuals deciding for all of the others what direction they go and whos stuff gets taken for the greater good.
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