I’m a talking monkey standing on a cooled fireball spinning round a star expanding into space, and live with many other talking monkeys, who draw lines on maps, form groups and leaders emerge to create rules which are enforced, with forced. Taxes are collected and spent. Talking monkeys belong to the group they were born in. The rulers (governments) can be restrictive and parental or more free, but many are based on voting for the people who will run things (if not, the only way to change anything is to join the government). Where voting is possible, groups of people split into different camps, and also become identities, and the camps have opposing policies. Loosely, the argument is how much the governors should govern, a lot or a little. Most people work and pay tax to support the ideas of the governments.
Personally, I’ve never lived in the country I have the right to vote in. If I did have that right, then there is no direct democracy, i.e. I wouldn’t be able to vote on individual issues via constant referendums. It’s a representative democracy, i.e. there are set parties with a range of set ideas (a manifesto) some of which I might like and some of which I might not, and I’d vote for the one I like the most, which is actually none of them.
I think it would be better if there was no set government. If we used technology to let everyone vote on every issue, so the whole world is a parliament, and the people who run it are just administrators, carrying out the will of the people. If we do away with nation states, then “the people” could actually be “the species”. Even if I did choose to vote, I would have to recognise the social construct of countries, and I’d rather be a human being and citizen of the world, but by voting I’d be accepting the impossibility of that (when it is actually possible).
Argument
Countries are unnecessary
Representative democracies don’t let me vote on individual issues, I can only vote by including a vote for things I don’t believe in
I will avoid politics and not vote