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It's not a huge leap of logic. Logic is logic. If a person goes and kills a bunch of people, or orders to kill a bunch of people - you call him what? Murderer.
by snitko 12y ago
It's not a huge leap of logic. Logic is logic. If a person goes and kills a bunch of people, or orders to kill a bunch of people - you call him what? Murderer. You don't care whether he also helps old people in the nursing home or teaches children or helps the poor - those actions don't make him less of a murderer.
And yet, when a government takes tax money by force or threat of force and spends them on bloody wars where many people die, you say "but it also builds roads and educates our children and enforces private property, so it's not that bad, it's not evil". Well, it is. You're just avoiding using logic when it comes to government, it somehow is exempt from logical thinking for many people.
If you can't come up with a solution how to build a society without government and taxation, you're simply not thinking hard. The fact that there is no country on earth without government (except for Somalia, which you cannot compare to, say, the US, but which you SHOULD compare to the surrounding countries) means nothing. In the 16-th century there was no country on earth without slavery. In the same century hardly anyone in the society could imagine how to organize it without God, because, supposedly, without the fear of God humans would go crazy and start killing each other. So, please, stop and think about this: if there was no way for anyone to form a government, how would I solve all the problems governments are currently responsible for. It's a useful exercise.