A Duty Not to Vote?

I am not going to address the circumstances under which one ought not to vote because the election is corrupted: there is only one candidate, the count will be manipulated, to show up at the polling place would be to risk life and limb, or the election will have some other fundamental defect. These require fact intensive case by case analysis. What I am going to consider is a toy case in which it would be wrong to cast a vote because doing so would conflict with values underlying democratic processes. Then I will touch on some alternative voting procedures and finally will consider on whether toy case would generalize to a typical government election.

What Is Fascism? A Philosophical Prolegomenon.

Is fascism a phenomenon that resembles such natural kinds as protons, platypuses, or diamonds or is it more like the color red, which fades into pinks, purples, grays, white, or black with never anything like a boundary? To discharge the metaphors, is it possible to choose among and combine in almost any imaginable way the elements of being antidemocratic, leader-cultish, hostile to the rule of law and civil liberties, racist, misogynistic, nationalistic, militaristic, anti-rational, religiously intolerant, propagandizing, inegalitarian, politically violent, and fostering of coziness between the state and business and of the opposite between state and any organization of employees?

Should Libertarians Support Slavery?

Should those who call themselves “libertarians” object to people contracting themselves into slavery? If so, are they right?