Begging the question
Ok so there’s this logical fallacy called “Begging the question“, which is using circular reasoning to try and assume that the premise of your argument is true. It can happen in an implicit or explicit way.
The reason I’m pointing this out is because I often see that some people think the existence of government by democracy is justified because the majority willed it. It looks to me like this is an example of begging the question.
The fact that ‘the majority willed it’ has value to somebody, suggests that that person is already using democracy. So it couldn’t be said that “Because democracy has suggested we should use democracy, we should do that”. You can’t use democracy to try and determine that democracy should be used, beecause this is begging the question. That is circular reasoning.
So this means the choice to start a government with control over land, must have been unanimously supported by each individual, a majority consent could not have been enough.
You kinda begged the question of what fundamental standard or principle we should use in order to evaluate these mechanisms.
I’m sorry I don’t really understand you, could you rephrase that?
You say
“You can’t use democracy to try and determine that democracy should be used, beecause this is begging the question.”
Then how CAN you determine this? You didn’t talk about the actual standards that we use.
But I mean that if we have already established the private property ethic, then obviously it must be everybody’s own choice.
That’s true…
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