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I've created a Michel posting option on another blog and will post my general blog posts there. This blog will be used as an online journal in the future.

Least worst options

Sometimes we defend practices such as capitalism, democracy or free speech as the "least worst" option. Something about that defence does not inspire people and that isn't entirely surprising. It's something we need to keep saying even if it doesn't inspire because there are very few lessons more important. This is especially the case now that we have a thoroughly corrupt university system dominated by liberal fascists.

The reason we say "least worst" is that it is too easy to see the harm caused by capitalism, democracy and free speech. Social justice warriors who oppose the last of these three are quite correct when they note that people are hurt by free speech and even that the people most likely to be hurt by free speech are the poor and other marginalized members of our society. On the other hand, SJWs will sometimes argue as if free speech causes actual physical harm as in the case of critics of Milo Yiannopoulos book deal who have claimed it will cause deaths and that is insane hatred passing itself off as anti-hatred.

The answer to these people is to say, "Yes, people suffer under all these practices but it's necessary suffering because all the alternatives are worse. And they're all worse for the same reason: any attempt to establish some authority that gets to replace the market, the ballot box or free speech will inevitably become corrupted and will end up serving the interests of the elite.