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Re:SpaceX's Valuation Climbs to $25B with New Funding Round by rorykoehler on Friday April 13, 2018 @02:41AM (#16827605)
I don't have a country. That's a manmade concept that is forced upon me against my will.
Re:SpaceX's Valuation Climbs to $25B with New Funding Round by ben_w on Friday April 13, 2018 @05:17AM (#16828254)
I feel the same way — my identity is not at all attached to the nationality listed in my passport — but in the context of working for a defence-sector corporation, the argument still applies. Whoever the corporation sells stuff to is, for the purpose of the argument, “your” country.
Re:SpaceX's Valuation Climbs to $25B with New Funding Round by vasili111 on Friday April 13, 2018 @03:05AM (#16827704)
So no one is protecting your rights and property? There are no emergency service, firefighters and other public services that you directly benefit from?
Re:SpaceX's Valuation Climbs to $25B with New Funding Round by rorykoehler on Friday April 13, 2018 @03:42AM (#16827862)
There are and i happily pay my taxes but not happy about them being spent to kill people id probably be friends with if i met them in real life.
Re:SpaceX's Valuation Climbs to $25B with New Funding Round by nickik on Friday April 13, 2018 @02:08PM (#16832442)
So if somebody breaks into yoir house takes your money you cant complain because that guy sometimes cleans the house or buys cable?

Accusing people who are not pro-government of hypocracy because the use public services is absurd.

You cant not pay my taxes and opt out of government services.

Re:SpaceX's Valuation Climbs to $25B with New Funding Round by adwn on Friday April 13, 2018 @02:55AM (#16827663)
> I don't have a country.

Is there a country in which spend the majority of your time? If yes, then that's your country. Don't like it? Move to another one or get politically active.

> That's a manmade concept that is forced upon me against my will.

Nearly everything in our day-to-day lives is a manmade concept – that doesn't make it any less real.

Re:SpaceX's Valuation Climbs to $25B with New Funding Round by rorykoehler on Friday April 13, 2018 @03:40AM (#16827854)
>Is there a country in which spend the majority of your time?

That changes regularly enough. Just because i like a place doesn't mean it's my country.

I think you're conflating geography with political structures. I feel at home everywhere I've been and i don't quite understand the insatiable jingoism because all places and people are great and not so great in equal measure for various reasons. That said I'm not naive enough to expect it to change and if it were to change i can't really even see a pathway for that to happen. It only takes one person to spit in the punch to ruin it for everyone.