One problems I see with this plan is that number one and number two are contradictory. If you want to achieve personal freedom then absolute fealty to law is necessary. "Obedience to law is liberty" because if you are committing a bunch of petty crimes and evading taxes as number 2 suggests then you can be free neither in your mind nor in your body. Remember, they got Capone for tax evasion.
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Yeah of course they got Capone, but not for the tax evasion, but because they don't like competition in the protection bussiness. Capone also asked tax from the people he protected. And if you were obedient to him and his protection agents then you had liberty.
No it's obedience. (to a master or masters) If you believe that obedience to law is liberty, than your a slave who probably doesn't know that he is one. If I may ask, who taught you that sentence? For if I wanted to control, rob and make you obey me, I would tell you that "Obedience to my rules gives you liberty". ;)
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If you follow the law you can do pretty much any damned thing you please and you are free, if you break it then you can't do what you want. Hard to do what you want in jail. Here in America you could be a serial killer and kill as many people as you want, as long as you go about it in a legal way and sign up for the army. You could own a machine gun, if you can afford it and qualify for the permits. Anything really. You can say anything you want, as long as you don't make any threats, right?
I saw that sentence chiseled in stone above the old courthouse, I thought it about it a lot, of course I balked it when I first saw it as well, something to think about.
You are not free if you are worrying about a tax audit.
I agree psychopath sociopaths murderers thieves the best place for them is in government or siding with government. In communistic russia they could also do what they want in the gulags. and those people in the gulag should have just followed the law then they could have been the guard and executioners.
I agree with you the best place to do atrocious stuff and enslave your neighbour is in government or being a faithful believer in government.
But what do you do when you are not a sociopath and don't want to be an oppressor of your neighbours and steal from them and not tell them what to do and that they must obey you. What if you don't want to pay and do not agree that psychopath sociopaths murderers have a place to go where they can murder or harass innocent people who did nothing wrong only did not obey the psychopaths threats?
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they could also do what they want in the gulags? no they couldn't.
If you are not a sociopath then probably you don't want to kill a lot of people, that was just one option. You can follow your bliss whatever it is. If you don't want to pay taxes don't earn any money. If you are earning money inevitably you are availing yourself of public services, at a certain point society asks that you pay your fair share.
I don't want those "services".
Society does not ask me to pay my "fair share" psychopaths with guns take it in name of a third party( "society") that has not the slightest clue what they are supporting, and don't want to know either.
My bliss (moral obligation) is: ending this believe in the non existing god called government. Which in reality is a gang of thieves and slave owners.
I don't pay taxes for roads and "protection" and healthcare. I pay taxes to prevent a terror attack on my live, and to stay under the radar. And I try to pay a little as possible.
But without government who's gonna pay for uranium bombs and rockets?
Is a question I never heard any statist ask.
so, you don't use roads? what recourse do you take when someone fails to meet a contractual obligation to you?
Yes I do use roads But it's hard to get around them. The institution that pretends to own the road does not own the road. It has claimed all the roads land all the houses and all the people the live within some lines they drew on paper which are called land. But there were roads before that and there were people living and owning land before they came and declared themselves owners of that land and the people in it.They have the monopoly on force and with that the monopoly on anything. People say they hate monopolies and what do they do they praise the biggest and most violent monopoly of them all.
So it also goes with courts. I have not been in one for myself, I once testified however in a case when there was a crime committed ( you know one with a victim) And I would pay voluntarily for a dispute resolution firm or organization. But the government still has a monopoly on that too.
But that will change overtime.
Also if I have a problem I first go to the person and try to solve it myself. I don't know but mostly people are reasonable.
But what do you do when some people from a ficticious entity comes at your door claiming you have a "contractual" obligation to pay for "services" you never signed and never gave permission too.
And then says you have to pay for stuff that you are morally oppose.
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Using the roads argument and pushing away the crimes this entity does.....I don't know I hear it a lot. When I hear people talk like that, (not only you) It's sound the same as people defending a serial killer because the serial killer helped a disabled neighbour build a shed.
It's really astonishing how people defend criminals who ruined their whole live. And they don't even see it. A lot of people have a really bad case of Stockholm syndrome. And they practically demand that you develop one also.
People who call you their friend literally want you to be thrown in jail if you ever decided to follow your conscience and moral compass. It's sad, but hey live goes on.