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The entire nature of the social contract is based on the idea that punishing you to make the world better is OK. You are punished in the form of taxes so that t
by cmsmith 13y ago
The entire nature of the social contract is based on the idea that punishing you to make the world better is OK. You are punished in the form of taxes so that the government can provide social security and foreign aid and military intervention (independent of whether you individually support those actions). You are inconvenienced in the form of DUI checkpoints to punish drunk drivers.
You have a couple of choices:
1: Decide that the net cost to living in civilization is worse than the benefit, and go and live with some nomadic hunter-gatherers somewhere.
2: Vote to change policies you disagree with, and live with the ones that you are in the minority on.
- CamperBob2 13y agoJust out of curiosity (and no offense intended), how old are you?
- gcv 13y agoWhere are these hunter-gatherers who do not fall under the jurisdiction of a nation-state organization?
- ItendToDisagree 13y agoThe public gets to vote on these policies? Where and when? And no "the person you vote for does", or any other wording of such, is not a decent response to this for a multitude of reasons.