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Peoples rights are either taken, defended or given. There is no such thing as a natural right to anything for any of us. The US government don't have the right
by ThomPete 10y ago
Peoples rights are either taken, defended or given. There is no such thing as a natural right to anything for any of us.
The US government don't have the right to control the US continent anymore than the British do England or Swedish Sweden and so on. They took it and is defending it through the sheer use of power.
There is no justice in how land is distributed, no right or wrong only the power to claim and hold it.
And so it goes with taxation; there is no right or wrong taxation, it's the price to live in a society for any of us unless we can find a way to change it through the system, build our own or find some isolated place where no one will bother us.
Neither homesteading nor claims of natural laws changes that.
- Kinnard 10y agoWell, that's rather cynical. Might makes right?
- ThomPete 10y agoYou are welcome to propose some objective/natural "right" criteria. If you do you probably should send it to the Nobel Price committee because that would basically be changing all of philosophy and a number of other areas. So yeah I guess unfortunately might is the final word in right.