At the post, It's Time to Support Our Libertarian Brothers as well as Sisters inwards Catalonia, r Shook asks this question:
Along these same lines would you lot oppose the secession of California if the masses at that topographic point decided it would survive inwards their best interest? If not, delight explain.First, I must squall for out that secession is
only a tool. It tin survive used for expert or bad, only like, say, jury nullification.
Jury nullification is rattling oftentimes a positive from a libertarian perspective if the jury denies a guilty verdict inwards a example where the authorities charged an private amongst activeness that was non a violation of the non-aggression principle, tell the selling of marijuana.
However, consider this scenario, a jury nullifies the conviction of an private who stole a truck from a enterprise because the enterprise was "making also much inwards profits" yesteryear serving its consumers as well as the enterprise doesn't teach its truck back.
This would survive using the tool, nullification, inwards a non-libertarian vogue as well as should survive objected to yesteryear all libertarians. Whenever jury nullification occurs, at that topographic point is a addition inwards that to a greater extent than top away aware of the concept of jury nullification, but at that topographic point is to a greater extent than to the situation, namely, does a item nullification displace us inwards the management of freedom or away from it.
The same goes for secession.
r Shook poses his inquiry inwards the shape of what " if the masses at that topographic point [California] decided it would survive inwards their best interest [to secede]," but I am non inwards favor of majority rule. I am inwards favor of abide by for private belongings as well as allowing individuals to create any they delight on their property. That is, I am inwards favor of the Private Property Society.
And almost sure enough hither inwards California, where I reside, I would non survive inwards favor of a secessionist authorities that created all sorts of regulations that farther restrain my liberty. So if a California secession movement would seem to survive moving inwards the direction of liberty, I would survive inwards favor of it. That is using the secessionist tool to advance liberty. However, I would survive against using the secessionist tool if it appeared to survive moving inwards the management of a to a greater extent than oppressive government.
This is basic realpolitik analysis. The ideal is a PPS. However, if the PPS is non going to survive gained inwards the short-run, nosotros must ever back upwardly moves that are inwards the management of freedom as well as recognize that tools such equally jury nullification as well as secession are alone tools, that should survive used or discarded, depending upon the circumstances as well as whether the tools are existence used to advance or shrink liberty.
-RW
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