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According to you, violence is created when the government forces people to pay taxes (or to do anything else). The reality is that violence existed way before
by Toine 9y ago
According to you, violence is created when the government forces people to pay taxes (or to do anything else).
The reality is that violence existed way before any government or society. For millions of years, it was, and very often still is, the normal way of dealing with conflict for human beings.
Human society emerged as an attempt to contain this violence and avoid human suffering. In other words, without governments or any social structure, we would return to what we call the "law of the jungle", and that's not desirable at all.
We absolutely need a set of common rules that everyone follow, otherwise human society would collapse, that's a fact. However, those laws are by definition limiting individual power (taxation, etc) and therefore very often resisted by those individuals. That's why there is, as far as we know, no other way than violence, or threat of violence, to enforce those rules.
In other words, taxation is not theft, it's a key component of a desperate attempt to control human violence and limit human suffering (including yours).