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Google Results: ______ is theft
- Luff 17y agoWell, to be fair, most libertarians think taxation is armed robbery, not theft.
- zaphar 17y agoWell technically armed robbery is a subset of theft so I don't think it's unfair really.
- eli 17y agoI'm really tired of pretending that the number of google results for a phrase actually tells us anything interesting.
- RyanMcGreal 17y agoWell, it tells us something interesting about people, if not necessarily about the subject of the phrase.
- eli 17y agoI'm not seeing it at all. What exactly does it tell us in this case?
- jrockway 17y agoSo basically, everything but taking someone's property illegally. I love hyperbole. I don't understand why "theft" is the crime of choice, though. There are so many things that sound even worse, and are technically just as true. "Downloading is terrorism." "Taxation is child rape." "Inflation is murder." It is interesting that "is" in that context actually means "is not". "It depends on what 'is' is," I guess.
- eru 17y agoI like to paraphrase the notorious showing-movie-piraters-in-prison campaign as "Bootleggers are murderers.".