Re:I Miss My Bar
by jeofken on Friday February 19, 2021 @07:49AM
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Good! The relationship between you and the Bundesrepublik is a non-voluntary one, where you never signed a contract with them to follow their laws. It’s a state created by the victors of the last great war. There is no moral responsibility to please people who are in your life involuntarily
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Re:I Miss My Bar
by 74d-fe6-2c6 on Friday February 19, 2021 @09:36AM
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With your attitude you have to be willing to not use tax-funded hospitals, community-financed health insurance or state-sponsored cultural events. Not sure if I'd like to take that step. There has to be a healthy balance in the relationship between society and citizen.
The same argument applies to a slave being fed and housed by their master.
I think it’s very healthy to avoid some government funded “services”, such as having children far away from government schools. If you are not paying, you are the product.
Did you ever read Leviathan (Hobbes)?
I’m familiar with it as being ethically relativist (no universal eternal ethics) and arguing that man needs to be ruled to live in peace.
Would you recommend spending a couple of weeks on it? If so, are there translations to modern English, or is the original easy to understand for us in this century?