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> Yes, you may be able to justify this legally, but it is a morally highly questionable behaviour nonetheless. Same goes for taxation itself. Many in this thr
by VMG 9y ago
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Yes, you may be able to justify this legally, but it is a morally highly questionable behaviour nonetheless.
Same goes for taxation itself. Many in this thread will argue that it cannot be theft since it is legal, which is absurd.
- gambiting 9y agoThe notion that tax is theft is absurd.
- vertex-four 9y agoNo, not because it's legal - because it's collectively agreed upon to be a necessary thing. That it's legal is a result of that - you're mixing cause and effect.
- VMG 9y agoThe idea that collective agreement dictates morals is flawed and dangerous.
- vertex-four 9y agoAnd the idea that only individual rights matter, and that people don't have a duty to others, is also flawed and dangerous. As with pretty much everything else, the solution is somewhere in the middle that doesn't suit extremist slogans very well.