How do you know you're a person open to reason?

[wufwugy]

I like how you say "criminal theft" here, so as to give the impression that there's a "non-criminal theft", aka "tax", when of course, all theft is criminal, and tax, not being criminal, is therefore not theft.

I said "criminal theft" because in that instance I was talking about criminal theft, not theft as a concept itself. Criminal theft is theft as defined as a crime.

It's an attempt to show that the "because the law says so" argument is exactly that, an argument that a thing that is a certain way becomes not that way because the law says so. A frog ain't a toad, no matter what the law or a group of authorities say.

[OngBonga]

Criminal theft is theft as defined as a crime.

You can remove the word "criminal" from this sentence and it still means exactly the same thing.