Maybe you're replying to a reasonable person who continued to use Firefox.

Uh we have all killed indirectly. Do you pay taxes?

I'm not American, and the country where I pay taxes does not wage wars in foreign countries as far as I know.

Have you ever bought a product/service from an American company?

I have, but it's significantly less than the amount of taxes I pay, and it's even less than the US government is getting in the end.

It may be a smaller amount, but it is voluntary. Paying taxes is not voluntary.

It's as voluntary as taking a shower everyday. I don't consciously think about where the product comes from when I buy stuff, especially when it comes to commodities. If you start doing that you can't buy stuff anymore and you have to grow your own stuff yourself and stop trusting everyone else on the planet :)

> If you start doing that you can't buy stuff anymore and you have to grow your own stuff yourself and stop trusting everyone else on the planet :)

That's exactly my point. If you're assigning blame for something the US government did to someone because they paid taxes, then you can pretty much assign blame to everyone for everything. Oh, you went to Stanford during the '90s? Well Rice was provost then, so you helped pay her salary are therefore responsible for the deaths that occurred in the Iraq war. It's absurd.

I think you are extrapolating vs the original point. I was answering to :

> Uh we have all killed indirectly

Well, Rice has been certainly much more 'directly' involved in killing that the ones who paid taxes.

It doesn't work that way, sorry.