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>While I sympathize with the feeling, it’s a stretch to say “obligated by law”. You pay taxes, The number of steps that “Pay Taxes” is removed from “Literally
by SV_BubbleTime 1y ago
>While I sympathize with the feeling, it’s a stretch to say “obligated by law”. You pay taxes,
The number of steps that “Pay Taxes” is removed from “Literally At Fucking Gunpoint” is not as many steps as you might think.
- GuinansEyebrows 1y agoyou can either pay taxes at gunpoint or you can pay tribute/protection/insurance/ransom/bribes at gunpoint. not sure there are (or have ever been) many places in the world where you don't owe some debt of obligation to a larger organization, be it a government, organized crime, or something else.
- sleet_spotter 1y agoI’m not sure if you are intentionally trying to miss the point. The comment was claiming they are obligated by law to support media they don’t agree with. We are all equivalently obligated by law to not steal or commit other crimes. We pay taxes. They are part of the contract of our society. What our representatives decide to spend them on doesn’t change that.
- cryptonector 1y ago"We are all [...] obligated by law to not steal or commit other crimes" is NOT equivalent to being "obligated by law to support media [one does not] agree with". Not even remotely. Negative obligations != positive obligations.