Government Is Slavery

I am antiwar, at least on an intellectual level. We basically have little to no choice of paying income taxes which pay for war and hegemony. Those taxes pay for lots of different things. We don't choose which things to fund- congress does.

I wish there were effective actions to take to stop US government physical violence and economic dominance.

I highly doubt that calling government slavery, taxes slavery, and voting violence is going to change many people's minds. Show people the pictures and videos of death and destruction and tell them their tax money pays for it and it's not defensive.

>>>> x: VOLUNTARILY <<<<

How many big corporations do you figure will volunteer?

The environmental threats are real.

>>>> x: So I guess if one thinks ALL rape is bad, that's also "binary thinking"? <<<<

Stop signs are managed and enforced by governments. Are stop signs slavery and violence?

>I am antiwar, at least on an intellectual level. We basically have
>little to no choice of paying income taxes which pay for war and hegemony.

Bullshit.

I have avoided income taxes for over 30 years. And I will die before I consent to my own productivity to be utilized for such heinous actions. So don't try and tell me we have no choice. A coward has no choice perhaps. A slave has no choice. A human being who understands his own sovereignty and moral duty will have the spine and balls to MAKE a choice, and say "No."

>Those taxes pay for lots of different things. We don't choose which things to fund- congress does.

That's the point. They're taking your money (more accurately, you're wealth and productivity), using it immorally, and not giving you any choice in the matter. They throw you a few scraps (that have been poisoned), and that's suppose to justify it? It's ludicrous.

It should be obvious to any thinking person that if taxpayers are footing the bill, then the way for the violence to stop is for the taxpayers to refuse to foot that bill. That's how you stop violence without using violence.... you STOP BEING THE CAUSE OF IT.

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I need to clarify. Let's say there's a leader of a country and she is committing genocide. The international community wants to stop the genocide. How does the international community stop her from committing genocide without using violence?

>Stop signs are managed and enforced by governments. Are stop signs slavery and violence?

The enforcement of them is. The placement of them and the voluntary agreement to generally follow them (when necessary) is not violence. Just because government is involved in some activity, no matter how righteous that activity is, it will never excuse the violence they are perpetrating. It's like me hitting you over the head, taking your belongings, (using that money to have children raped and murdered), then giving you a lolipop and claiming I'm such a good guy, because you couldn't have lolipops without me... that I'm not violent because I hand out lolipops, and that's not violence.

>>>> x: I have avoided income taxes for over 30 years. <<<<

1. Did you ever stipulate that only income taxes are slavery?

2. Most people have to work within the system for an employer.

Re: The enforcement of stop signs is slavery and violence.

So if I don't want to voluntarily stop at a stop sign and my actions maim or kill you, then what?

>I need to clarify. Let's say there's a leader of a country and she is committing genocide.
>The international community wants to stop the genocide. How does the international
>community stop her from committing genocide without using violence?

By taking defensive action. But you have to do it voluntarily, or get people to act voluntarily. You don't have the right to rob people to fund such an endeavor. Also, situations like this need deeper thought than simply reaction with force. Consideration of the causes of the situation need to be assessed. Why are the people unable to defend themselves? What can be done to strike at the root of the problem... otherwise any solution is likely to be very short lived.

Also I would like to point out that just because I'm pointing out the insanity and immorality of using violence to solve humanity's problems doesn't mean that the burden is upon me to thereby provide a neat solution for every hypothetical or real scenario. There are difficult challenges facing humanity, but we will NEVER solve them, and they will continue to get worse as long as we believe that mass violence is the solution to the problem. The ONLY solution to the problem is the masses of people changing their consciousness to engage in self-education, moral action, and self-responsibility.

Aggregate freedom and violence in the world is directly proportional to aggregate morality. This is an immutable proportion that can never be gotten around by any kind of immoral policy of violent enforcement and enslavement.

Addressing the world's problems will require a lot of imagination and intelligence, but using violent methods that empower malicious and greedy psychopaths that are never effective or efficient is NOT the way.