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 Originally Posted by Ash256
Wait, so the other islanders don't have the right to go into your hut and take your shit but they do have the right to throw you in jail if you commit a crime?
I don't see why you think it's abhorrent that the state has the right to take your money but cool that the state has the right to permanently take your freedom/life.
Also your foot-stomping indignation against paying taxes is completely undermined by the fact that you feel a state is necessary to "enforce laws prohibiting murder, theft, and enslavement, maintain courts of law, and maintain a military.". You either want a government or you don't. By all means advocate a small government, but realise that philosophically arguing against taxes just has you whining about your own utopia.
I am opposed to all the island people forming an armed gang and forcing the most productive guy on the island to give them half of his stuff. Charity should be voluntary, and a mob of islanders with sharp sticks taking his stuff is the same thing as modern government taking half of Bill Gate's income and giving it to banks and corn farmers and bomb makers.
It just backfires and we can't see the damage it does because we never see how productive the hard working guy would be without the huge amount of theft at gunpoint (redistribution of wealth).
The whole point of government is to stop armed mobs, not become the armed mob itself.
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