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by snitko 12y ago
Saying something is absurd doesn't make it so. I'm usually willing to explain my position and to back it up with both logic and evidence. I think when you say "taxation is theft" people have a knee jerk reaction. But I d
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by snitko 12y ago
Can't tell if you are trolling or being serious.
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by snitko 12y ago
What if there are other (and better) ways of achieving the same thing, but without state and taxation? Would you consider them?
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by snitko 12y ago
> Health care is already free of charge in most of the modern world This is completely and utterly incorrect. It's not free. Doctors and nurses are getting paid. Equipment is purchased. Drugs are prescribed. Who is paying for it?
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by snitko 12y ago
I do. What's wrong with obtaining an insurance? It's my choice. You want an insured taxi service - get one and pay more. I want cheaper taxi and I don't want government to mess with my choices. It seems to me, westerners beca
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by snitko 12y ago
That's first hand info. I live in Russia. You go out any time of day, raise a hand and chances are, a private car would stop. Taxis are limited to by-phone-orders, but are also very cheap due to a very light regulation. Not once was I
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by snitko 12y ago
Actually, I don't think it's specific to English. In Russian, you can say "Red Big Barn", but it also sounds wrong. So I'm guessing it's similar in other languages.
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by snitko 12y ago
Did you just compare honest hard working taxi drivers to mafia? If government didn't require licences for taxi drivers, you'd have some crazy place like Russia where anyone can be a private driver without any licence and customers
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by snitko 12y ago
What paths were proposed and which ones didn't seem viable to you and why?
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by snitko 12y ago
That's because of the twisted market government has created. In the real world, most roads are built on taxpayers money and police is paid for using tax money of the very same people they beat up. But is this real world a place you wan
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by snitko 12y ago
I suggest you watch this short video then, which explains how laws, protection and private property can be created and enforced in a free market: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTYkdEU_B4o
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by snitko 12y ago
Laws and enforcement is not something that only governments know how to do.
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by snitko 12y ago
Those two things things - private property and enforcing contracts - are goods, and it's not only government who can produce goods.
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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
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by snitko 12y ago
Of course I don't suggest SpaceX ignores the law. That would put them in a lot of trouble. What I'm saying is, people should stop and think for a moment: wait a minute, why do we have this monopoly on law which many people exploit
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by snitko 12y ago
As far as I understand, people demand money for being laid off. It's essentially the same.
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by snitko 12y ago
Of course. If you actually signed a contract saying "I will abide the law of this land". But not you, not me, not the ex-employees and not even SpaceX signed ever signed such a contract. They're simply operating under a set o
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by snitko 12y ago
I was trying to argue from a moral point of view. The existence of state, which itself is an immoral institution, doesn't justify the absurdity of the idea to demand being employed.
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by snitko 12y ago
SpaceX doesn't owe anything to you unless it signed a contract that says it has to employ you for this amount of time. I don't understand neither laws, nor the people who would foster such lawsuits. That's using government to
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by snitko 12y ago
Rights? Like what rights? Like the right to go anywhere I want to without the need for stupid papers?
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by snitko 12y ago
What a bizarre world are we living in where you need a specially colored and printed piece of paper to travel and where it is this piece of paper, and not the technical problem of traveling thousands of miles, is the real challenge.
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by snitko 12y ago
Distributing secure text/voice/video calls app through an app store of any kind is by definition not secure. Give me an .apk
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by snitko 12y ago
So, you don't like the Javascript language, therefore web sucks? I'm no big fan of Javascript myself (so I'm gradually switching to Dart), but really, that's a lousy argument. Web is essential. Some apps are better be im
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by snitko 12y ago
>You threw out some arbitrary numbers with no real basis. Why does it take 90% of society to harm the minority in a free market but only 70% in state? That's not what I did. I gave you examples that with any distribution of opinio
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by snitko 12y ago
>And what do you think a government is? It is a monopoly, of course. It clearly demonstrates that monopolies cannot exist without the threat of force, which isn't profitable to do in a free market, where you cannot force people to
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by snitko 12y ago
>I think you've misunderstood my question then. I never mentioned wars. I'm asking why these entities with the power to violently coerce others would operate friendly protection agencies, instead of simply stealing from everyo
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by snitko 12y ago
There is no my or someone else's logic. There's logic. If you say it's ok that taxation not only sponsored the development of weapons that killed all those people, but they also provided some good things, then it's exact
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by snitko 12y ago
I wasn't gonna go into a discussion here, but I'm tempted to say that not everyone believes states should have any responsibilities, including building roads. The problem is, you cannot have one without the other. If you have stat
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by snitko 12y ago
As a Russian, I'd like to say I'm deeply sorry for the losses of passengers' families. Whoever did this is a complete monster. Many russians do not support any war or aggression against Ukraine and many are convinced, that Ru
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by snitko 12y ago
I was tempted to reply, because I think you've made some points I can understand, but object to. And some others I believe you simply misunderstood. > Well yeah, your victims pay for it. That's not what I meant. I meant that

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