What types of government do most Autistics like?

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I think that's a vote for totalitarianism.

How about what I actually said?



The only fair distribution of resources is to let everyone keep what they've earned. All of it. Anything else is theft. Period.



Get rid of all governments and that whole mess becomes moot. By the way, I think there's a pretty strong consensus that the EU is finished.

Although that statement looks superficially correct, it has several fundamental flaws.

First, what do you mean by "earn it". Are you talking about money? Do you believe that in our current world, there is a 1:1 relationship between the effort put on their jobs and the resources they get out of them?
Do you believe people who were lucky enough to be born into money have "earned" it in any way?
Do you helieve that those who are disadvantaged for one reason or another must suck it up?

Besides, taxation and such are in the end nothing more than a systematic way to enforce the basic principle that if you belong to a community, are benefited by it, and are able to contribute to its common welfare, then you must contribute something for the common good. They are part of the social contract. It's not perfect, I'd rather have smaller communities where most of your taxes/contributions stay locally so you can more directly see their effect, and large scale corruption would become more difficult, but I wouldn't go as far as to consider them theft, either.



What would you replace a government with?

Another of my strongest beliefs on politics is that a community of individuals providing each other common support is stronger that it's parts. So even if there was no government at all, there would still be small communities that cooperate with each other, forming what is effectively a mini government,
Ans then either one of them will get ideas of grandeur and start conquering and swallowing up all the others, or those communities will band together and create a super-community which in its turn is stronger than the sum of its individuals.
After a few iterations of this, those groupings will grow large enough in size and complexity that they effectively become governments anyway.

So first, do you see any flaws with this line of thought? Second, seriously, what would ykj replace a government with? And third, for that repkacement that you suggest, how would you ensure that it is a stable system that will not eventually change into something else that will result in a government anyway?

Also, with Merkel and Macron where they are, I wouldn't give up on the EU just yet.

Also I wonder what smudge thinks about Brexit

Also, goddamn I missed these forum smileys

I'm a political moralist. I prefer a moralist communitarian republic which acts to protect the rights and vital wellbeing of it's people, and to enact policies to advance the condition of people and society.

Replying to OP. I feel that a socialist government would be most beneficial to autistics, as it would cater to the needs of the individuals, rather than the needs of the top percentage.

Felinism, a regime where cats rule.

That's a good one there.

Right leaning libertarian for me.
And if it isnt already obvious enough, there's no such thing as "most statistics" when it comes to political preferences.

I personally want a center-left government. I want Scandanavian style social democracy.

Get it by any means other than having the government hand it to you, which necessarily involves stealing it from someone else first.



I’m talking about any form of wealth.



Irrelevant.



Maybe earn is a misleading word in that case, but it’s irrelevant, because wealthy parents should have every right to use their wealth to privilege their children in any way they can and want to. If the children themselves haven’t earned it, their families certainly have and are doing with it freely what they want.



Indeed, because it’s noöne’s responsibility to do anything about their disadvantage but their own.



A contract you’re born into without your consent is no contract.



You can have private gated communities. No taxes needed, and no corruption, by the same token.



Why not? Because the thieving organization doesn’t call its own theft theft? How is it any different from any other party taking what is yours by force?



I wouldn’t replace it with anything. In fact, I wouldn’t expect to survive, but this doesn’t change the fact that I think that if we must have ethical principles at all, the single libertarian one is indisputable. Therefore, whatever happens after government is removed is the right thing, by definition.



No problem as long as that “common support” is strictly voluntary. By the way, even if such a community is stronger than its parts, it’ll be even stronger if it lets its weak parts naturally die, rather than keeping them artificially alive at the expense of net providers.



Not right now.



Already answered.



I wouldn’t.

By the way, I doubt most people, when voting, give a crap whether what they’re voting for makes a system stable, or whether it’s already been done with results starkly different from their expectations. And if they do give a crap, they’ll find a way to believe whatever they need to believe in order to justify their vote. The normal human procedure is first choose in a split second the conclusion you want, and then make up whatever BS reasoning you need to reach it—not the other way round.



As soon as it begins taxing people by force, the right thing to do will be to get rid of it again. Time to refresh the tree of liberty with the blood of patriots and tyrants, I guess.



It may still get some outside help to fall.



Last time I read something from her about the issue, she was all for it.

I agree. Though I think sick, elderly people, or severely disabled people should be entitled to tax money.

In a country like New Zealand, being uneducated and unskilled is a choice. There are countless grants, programmes and scholarships available to people from all walks of life.

I don’t want people who make bad choices getting my tax money.

Some people really do offer nothing to society, yet expect the world. Lazy bludger I used to live with expected her husband to give her $40,000 for a car. People like that actually make me sick to my stomach. The fact they breed and spread their poisonous attitude is alarming.

Due to my life experiences, I am strictly anti socialism and anti communism.

Never again in my life will I vote for a left wing government.

Contradiction!

Well, partly agree, then.

I like democracy. I believe that everyone should have a right to their own opinion, freedom of speech. I would hate a government to be able to violate my privacy rights.