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Noodle wrote
The idea that paying taxes is slavery is pretty dumb for the reasons Smelly mentioned about what our taxes pay for. I'm curious about what kind of society the "taxation is theft" crowd envisions.
The really interesting part of this thought experiment is that, if I understood it right, the writer seems to think that your vote is meaningless unless there would have been a tie without your vote. In their scenario, if it's not a tie, the "master" doesn't even count your vote. There's something stupid about that view of voting that I'm having a hard time putting into words.
So it's like saying if yours wasn't the deciding vote, it means you didn't really have a say at all. But that's true for every voter, so I guess we should just get rid of voting because every individual vote is meaningless? It makes me hopeful that the writer of this and the people who think it's smart don't vote.
The taxation is theft/slavery crowd is just as dumb as people who think communism'll work.
I used the word "vote" too much and now it sounds weird. Vote, vote, vote.
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Hey noodle. Sorry for my tardy reply. I don’t remember getting notice that anyone had replied. Mea culpa.
Thanks for your insights into this thought piece. It honestly confused me as much as anything. I guess my key take away from it is that the idea of individual freedom really is a continuum. Putting it into the context of slavery versus freedom gives it a real baseline I think. I don’t think I would have written the continuum the same way. In any case, thanks for your thoughtful response.