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Would you steal if theft was not a crime? Why or why not?
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I would collect taxes if I held the power of physical violence over a community. All taxation is theft, amiright?
But seriously, stealing is a crime because prevailing thought within the community is that taking something that someone else has a claim on is wrong. If the prevailing thought was that it was not wrong, it wouldn't be against the law, but we also would call it something else... Like taxation.
That is such a stupid take. Tax money is spend on things you use
I agree. Guess I should have put a /s on the slogan. But it's still taking a portion of something that is technically owned by one person or group for the betterment of the community.
Some people see that as theft and so would call it stealing even though there isn't a law against it. My point is that this question is asked from a particular vantage point and what constitutes theft and the law may be different from one person to another.
Some people also think the earth is flat, it has nothing to do with reality.
Well tbf if someone stole my wallet at gunpoint but used a small portion of the money stolen to buy me lunch I'd still be pretty mad about him spending the rest of my money paying off his Haliburton credit card.
Yes, good thing this metaphor does not apply to tax
Yes, but the bad thing is that it does.
Not a majority of the money is spend on corruption like where do you live in fucking Russia or something? Zimbabwe? Also noome forces you to stay in that country for sure. I also left my home country.