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| It is asserted that in a democracy, "the state is us", so we are taxing and enforcing laws against ourselves. | It's not "the state" that is taxing you and coercing you; in a democracy "the state is us", so we're doing it to ourselves. |
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| A classic ''reductio ad absurdum'' for this fallacy is to point out that Hitler was democratically elected, that Jews were in the electorate, so those killed in the concentration camps weren't actually murdered but committed suicide. | A good ''reductio ad absurdum'' for the false premise that "the state is us" is that since Hitler was elected, and Jewish people were part of the population that elected him, they weren't murdered in the concentration camps, but rather committed suicide, since they were the state. |
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| More fundamentally, however, the fallacy rests on the false premise that VotingIsConsent and that infringement of individual rights (to life, liberty, and property) is justified if a majority wills it. But individual rights do not come from states or majorities, but are a property of individual self-ownership (see [[Voluntaryism]]). | More fundamentally, however, the fallacy rests on the false premise that ../VotingIsConsent and that infringement of individual rights (to life, liberty, and property) is justified if a majority wills it. But individual rights do not come from states or majorities, but are a property of individual self-ownership (see [[Voluntaryism]]). |
Fallacy:
It's not "the state" that is taxing you and coercing you; in a democracy "the state is us", so we're doing it to ourselves.
Response:
A good reductio ad absurdum for the false premise that "the state is us" is that since Hitler was elected, and Jewish people were part of the population that elected him, they weren't murdered in the concentration camps, but rather committed suicide, since they were the state.
More fundamentally, however, the fallacy rests on the false premise that ../VotingIsConsent and that infringement of individual rights (to life, liberty, and property) is justified if a majority wills it. But individual rights do not come from states or majorities, but are a property of individual self-ownership (see Voluntaryism).