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Re:The New York Times Calls for Marijuana Legalization by drdeca on Saturday July 26, 2014 @10:10PM (#8091725)
I think that there is a non-negligible chance that I personally would follow the tax laws. (Although it seems very likely that at some point in time I would choose not to, it seems plausible to me that I might for some significant amount of time opt to follow the non-enforced laws, possibly even most of it (provided that the government was still stable and such) )

Not that I inherently oppose the use of violence to ensure that certain things that society has agreed on are enforced, Just that in many cases, I believe I would follow a current law set by a government even if there was no chance of punishment by the government (other than perhaps a public record)

(This is not to say that this is true of the majority of a given population, just that I believe that it is probably true about some people because I think it is probably true about me. (though I of course could be wrong in how I model myself) )

Note that I am claiming that there exist laws that I would follow without enforcement, but would not follow if they were not laws, but I am /not/ claiming that, for all laws, whether or not I follow said law is not affected by whether it is enforced.

Re:The New York Times Calls for Marijuana Legalization by baddox on Saturday July 26, 2014 @10:26PM (#8091751)
I believe that most people would feel that they have a civic duty to contribute a portion of their income to the government. I just think the portion would be smaller than their actual tax rate for the vast majority of people.
Re:The New York Times Calls for Marijuana Legalization by drdeca on Sunday July 27, 2014 @04:06PM (#8093825)
That seems fairly likely to me. ( I don't think this contradicts what I said.)