re: Why did Northern men volunteer to fight in the Union Army?

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Patriotism

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These Gettysburg Hills

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Not as long as the representatives are responsible to the people.

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So if you're robbed by a group of people, you have no moral claim to prevent the theft because most of the people present had their wishes represented by the action?

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Not as long as the representatives are responsible to the people.

So if you're robbed by a group of people, you have no moral claim to prevent the theft because most of the people present had their wishes represented by the action?

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If you like.

It is the called the tyranny of the Majority.

"The phrase "tyranny of the majority" was used by John Adams in 1788.[8]

It was also used by Edmund Burke in Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790), where he said that "The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny." It was further popularised by John Stuart Mill in On Liberty (1859). The Federalist Papers and the phrase (in translation) is used at least once in the first sequel to Human, All Too Human (1879).[9]

Ayn Rand wrote that individual rights are not subject to a public vote, and that the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities and "the smallest minority on earth is the individual".[10]

In Herbert Marcuse's 1965 essay "Repressive Tolerance", he said "tolerance is extended to policies, conditions, and modes of behavior which should not be tolerated because they are impeding, if not destroying, the chances of creating an existence without fear and misery" and that "this sort of tolerance strengthens the tyranny of the majority against which authentic liberals protested".[11]
In 1994, legal scholar Lani Guinier used the phrase as the title for a collection of law review articles.[12]


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It is not exactly a new idea.

It comes down to what Churchill said. "Democracy is the worst form of government except for all the others."

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So if you're robbed by a group of people, you have no moral claim to prevent the theft because most of the people present had their wishes represented by the action?

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Here is another take.

"From questions of this class spring all our constitutional controversies, and we divide upon them into majorities and minorities. If the minority will not acquiesce, the majority must, or the Government must cease. There is no other alternative, for continuing the Government is acquiescence on one side or the other. If a minority in such case will secede rather than acquiesce, they make a precedent which in turn will divide and ruin them, for a minority of their own will secede from them whenever a majority refuses to be controlled by such minority. For instance, why may not any portion of a new confederacy a year or two hence arbitrarily secede again, precisely as portions of the present Union now claim to secede from it? All who cherish disunion sentiments are now being educated to the exact temper of doing this."

- A Lincoln 3/4/61

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There was a draft but my understanding is that drafted numbers were relatively low.

So why would someone on a farm in Ohio volunteer to go attack people in another state who just wanted to be left alone?

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Interesting bit of history, many of the Blue Coats that fought in and around the Missouri/Arkansas area were new immigrants from Deutschland, very few spoke English and were pretty much thrown into the war because they were new arrivals and had no choice.

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This quote from Ang Lee's "Ride with the Devil" just about sums it up for me.

Mr. Evans: They (Yankees) rounded every pup up into that schoolhouse because they fancied that everyone should think and talk the same free-thinkin' way they do with no regard to station, custom, propriety. And that is why they will win. Because they believe everyone should live and think just like them. And we shall lose because we don't care one way or another how they live. We just worry about ourselves.

Jack Bull Chiles: Are you sayin', sir, that we fight for nothin'?

Mr. Evans: Far from it, Mr. Chiles. You fight for everything that we ever had, as did my son. It's just that... we don't have it anymore.

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Great movie and pertinent quote that parallels the mind set and movement of today's progressives. They believe all citizens need to accept the progressive download or face never ending temper tantrums.

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Would you agree to be taxed to build a road network? Or dams, canals, infrastructure? Would you feel safe flying in a plane with no radar system directing other planes?

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It doesn't matter if I agree or not. Because I have no say so. If I don't agree, armed government agents will come to my house and kidnap me and lock me in a cage. I have no choice in the matter.

And if I do agree, and other citizens agree together, why can't they privately form a group to pool resources, purchase property, and create a road network?

And if there aren't enough citizens who agree to such a project to raise enough money, a private group can always put up enough money to get a project started, perhaps with a loan, and they can charge a toll for its use, which for the users of the road is no different than paying for road maintenance through various forms of taxes.

Except it's entirely voluntary and ethical.

And a ton of the Union army were recent immigrants...and mostly why any young people join a fight...wages and food and a place to sleep.

But...

Witnessing the slave system of the Confederacy first-hand also strengthened the anti-slavery views of Union soldiers, who were appalled by its brutality.

He stated that "Experience in the South reinforced the antislavery sentiments of many soldiers."

One Union soldier said "I thought I had hated slavery as much as possible before I came here, but here, where I can see some of its workings, I am more than ever convinced of the cruelty and inhumanity of the system."

They were beta cucks