> (which you signed by participating in said society) This is what Plato has Socrates argue in Crito, but it is bullshit outside of perhaps a limited few scena

> (which you signed by participating in said society) This is what Plato has Socrates argue in Crito, but it is bullshit outside of perhaps a limited few scenarios (such as: if you are an older adult with the capacity to be politically aware, the means to remove yourself, and the emotional hardening or ideological emphasis necessary to abandon your friends and family.... in other words, if you are Socrates.) Those who actually have the ability to do as you implicitly suggest they should if they do not consent are a very small minority. "If you don't like it, leave it" is the cry of those who are in privileged positions in society and think that those below them should suck it up and deal with it. (Of course "leave" also becomes difficult for the extremely wealthy since, unlike in Athens at the time ("Any one who does not like us and the city, and who wants to emigrate to a colony or to any other city, may go where he likes, retaining his property."), we have "exit tax" for those people. These few people must be taxed in order to opt-out of being taxed.)