How to convince everyone government/systems of force are immoral

in #philosophy8 years ago (edited)

People's own definitions of things is what allows us to understand fundamentally what their processes are. It is important to think of your own definitions as I explain this and think of other situations in your life where definitions may not fit with the way your live works now or fall inline with your morals.

Ask people if they support any form of government.
Ask them what their definition of government is.
Ask them their definition of law.
Ask them their definition of their form of government (democracy, socialism, ect.)
Ask them then how things are paid for in government. (99% should say taxes or similar)
Ask them what their definition of theft is.
Ask them if taxes fall under the definition of theft.
If they say no, ask them how taxes are collected on those who don't want to pay.
There answer would be that someone comes to make them pay or puts them in jail for not paying.

This is a violent action. Ask them if they support violence.
if they don't support violence, and they believe theft is violent, and they believe that taxation is theft, then taxation is violent. We shouldn't support violent systems.

Once they understand this they can start to understand exactly how we can have the benefits of government without having all of the bad things government provides.

Because they will ask, how do we pay for the roads, medical care, education, ect. without taxes and government. My answer is that we will give our money to organizations that we truly feel will be beneficial to both parties.

Someone has the tools to build the road and a community wants to have them. The individuals who want roads will gather resources from and build roads. Now they might claim that it is their road sense they built it and might make people pay for it to use it. Now if the consumers feel that toll roads are a hindrance to advancing as a community they may protest, boycott, and find other methods of transportation to either force the hand of the road owners to allowing a different method of payment or allow free use of the road. I bet they would go for a different method of payment, the road owner and the consumers could come together to agree on a payment plan to compromise between the two groups. My solution would be a donation collective to pay for road maintenance and provide for the owners of the road rather than per use of the road. This would be greatly beneficial to both parties as the road owners would be able to live comfortably, maintain safe roads, and would not have excess wealth as the consumers would not be willing to donate more if the wealth is already large enough preventing a wealth gap between individuals. Which would also prevent large living condition gaps between individuals.

This type of cooperation is what the world needs. If we can't work together to build a service like the roads without forcing each other then maybe we should wait to build the roads. I believe that saving an individuals rights is more important than benefiting the collective. I believe we would be more inclined to solutions that benefit both parties involved in a relationship rather than increasing one parties benefits more than the other in a world where we minimize force and coercion.

My example of how people will come together with the roads is an example of what a free market society can provide. It doesn't have to be the roads, it could be where our food and water comes from, where building materials originate, how medical care is provided. The principle though is that you defend yourself when your rights are being hindered and hold those accountable when they don't hurt anyone but are doing immoral actions. This is what we need to do with government. Defend ourselves from the theft under the disguise of taxation by representation, but directly defending ourselves through a revolution/civil war would not be the proper solution. This would arise in a power vacuums where someone would try to become a new government. What we need to do to defend ourselves from this mass theft of our nation, and the future unborn generations who never got a say in their tax debt, is hold those in power morally responsible for what they are doing. Tell the people who are part of government, police officers, politicians, school teachers, ect. That what they are a part of is a mass theft with justification that it's for the benefit of everyone. The government doesn't get to say what does and doesn't benefit me or you, that is for us to decide until we decide harming another is ok because it benefits us.

Humans don't want to naturally harm, we want to work together for a better more peaceful society to live in. So start asking what people definitions are, start embracing what it truly means to be non-violent and end force. Start spreading this message of how we can work towards having the benefits of government without having to fund all of the immoral actions they do under the illusion that it's ok because they have a costume, paperwork, or support of the majority. Just because the majority says it's smart to jump off a cliff should you? Just because the majority says it's smart to steal from each other should you?