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That's backward. People's right to be and to be a part of their communities do not come from their presumed submission to a coercive power. The issue is not collaboration and contribution. The issue is coercion.

I'm of native descent. I was on this continent before this government and there's no way it could exist with my consent.




Peoples rights are either taken, defended or given. There is no such thing as a natural right to anything for any of us.

The US government don't have the right to control the US continent anymore than the British do England or Swedish Sweden and so on. They took it and is defending it through the sheer use of power.

There is no justice in how land is distributed, no right or wrong only the power to claim and hold it.

And so it goes with taxation; there is no right or wrong taxation, it's the price to live in a society for any of us unless we can find a way to change it through the system, build our own or find some isolated place where no one will bother us.

Neither homesteading nor claims of natural laws changes that.


Well, that's rather cynical. Might makes right?


You are welcome to propose some objective/natural "right" criteria. If you do you probably should send it to the Nobel Price committee because that would basically be changing all of philosophy and a number of other areas.

So yeah I guess unfortunately might is the final word in right.




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