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Reformed Loser

 

25 October 2007

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Continuing in this liberty vein, I've been considering making a vindictive post. I was angry before, now I'm just annoyed; I got a nibble, I'm ready to fight for my ideal, and then nothing. I really can't blame anyone, you've got your own lives to lead. If my ideas aren't compelling you to come back, read more, engage me a little, it's not your fault. I'll go ahead and peck out another missive though, for my own edification.

Ahem, the past few weeks I've solidified an idea that's been with me, but hazy, for a year or so now. It's a realization that I'm living in my ideal world. When arguing for markets, one has to concede to his audience that other consumers will greatly influence the products they have access to. Sometimes there's a good product that people don't buy, the manufacturer goes out of business, and that's that. You all have no problem with involuntary service to the state, so it's incredibly difficult for the few like me, who think it's nonsense, to resist it. Unless I want to go underground, or get violent, I'm stuck in servitude, because of you. I'm not allowed to choose who I want to pay for certain services, vital services like the education of a child, because all of you mindlessly shoulder the yoke of the various states' bureaucracies. So my mission is not to promote a free market revolution. It's to persuade you, my friends, that slavery is immoral. In my own small way, I want to help create an intellectual consumer base for free societies, free association, consensual relationships.

There's an important difference though, between say a restaurant and the City of Asheville. If you choose not to eat at said restaurant, they'll spend money on advertising or promotional events to try to change your mind. Contrast this model with the City's: if you own property inside the limits of what the mayor and the city councillors consider to be their domain, they use violence to get your business. George Washington says it best: "Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."

So that's number one. There are countless examples of state suckitude, but first and foremost, you cannot choose to opt out. If you try, men with guns will take you away and lock you up. You can't say no thank you, I'd rather not pay for D.A.R.E. officers to waste my children's time, I'd rather not encourage class strife vis a vis the welfare state, I'd rather not pay for Marines to fly halfway around the world and kill brown people, I'd like to try some other solutions.

Do I exaggerate? Listen, I can be persuaded. I've been wrong about lots of things, and I'll be wrong about lots more. Please, school me.

 

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Blogger Unknown Says:

Interesting. I plan to address a couple of issues when I have more time. I do wish you would clarify a couple things. First, you mention the education of a child. Are public schools and home schooling not options? And if you are talking about paying for the public in general, what option is there besides taxing the public to generate the funding needed to support the kids whose parents are deadbeats and who'd rather buy crack than help their kids?

also, why would the government come with the guns and lock you up for opting out? What do you mean by opting out? Becoming homeless, or not paying taxes. Please elaborate.

 
 
Anonymous Anonymous Says:

I have another comment.
Your friends miss you and they're all on the LFHL website waiting for you to join us.
come back to them.
to us
to america.

 
 
Blogger Sandy Says:

Tickle us do we not laugh? Prick us do we not bleed? Wrong us, shall we not revenge?

 
 
Anonymous Anonymous Says:

It's not just a high-five while passing each other in the hallway.

It's not just things swept off the butcher's floor over an open fire.

It's an outlet for your unquenchable thirst for NHL statistics.

And there is no quitting in fantasy hockey.

 
 
Blogger J. E. Ray Says:

William:

"I'm not allowed to choose who I want to pay..."

is what I said. You can choose home schooling, charter schools, private and parochial schools, sure, but you can't choose not to pay the state.

"...if you are talking about paying for the public in general, what option is there besides taxing the public to generate the funding needed to support the kids whose parents are deadbeats and who'd rather buy crack than help their kids?"

Hearken back to our days in school and imagine the kids you're talking about. Did Asheville High give them a good education? Personally, I feel like I would have been better off working than wasting time there, and I think a lot of them would have been too.

The welfare state plays a big role in crack addiction, by paying people to sit on their ass and smoke crack all the live-long day. So, government creates a problem, and you think the answer is more government? Doesn't make sense to me.

Finally, by opting out, I mean not paying taxes.

 

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