There seems to be an exponentially growing number of individuals who're seeing statism for what it is. I am among this number. I am the Recovering Statist.
Pubic broadcasting: as of July 1st we lose funding, can you give us money?
Me: I’m forced to fund all kinds of shit that I DON’T want to fund under the threat of violence. If you aren’t getting your cut anymore, that’s between you and those who rob me. I’m not giving you money.
Despite what you’ve been taught from birth you’re not morally obligated to support evil. No matter if the evil calls itself authority or government or culture or politics.
That’s bullshit. You’re only morally responsible for what YOU do.
Have empathy rather than obey authority.
I have good news. Even if you currently behave as a boot licking statist pawn, you are INHERENTLY a beautiful, autonomous individual who owns yourself.
You’ll figure it out eventually, one way or another.
@paine_l98812 I don’t think I’ve ever heard of “ancapism”, but true Anarchy or Voluntaryism are the only philosophies that anarcho-capitalism aligns with.
Minarchists and communists have more in common than they would ever admit.
Both have the same flawed logic that makes them confident that their desired statist utopia can work, despite the fact that it never has and never will.
Freedom is always legitimate. Government never is.
@paine_l98812 The coercion that government is based in is inherently immoral due to the lack of individual consent. There is no voluntary coercion. However, the world is loaded with beneficial, productive, consensual hierarchies. There is nothing inherently immoral about a hierarchy.
@feralwagecattle Behaving without any regard of consistent moral principles is what created the mess. Good people supporting evil acts created the mess. More of the same garbage doesn’t take any guts.
Murder & theft are wrong because they are immoral, not because politicians happen to scribble that they are “illegal”.
Besides such rare examples of coincidence, the only moral reactions to “the law” are either non-enforcement or flat disobedience of its enforcement.
Peace out.
250 years ago there were individuals who were willing to die to keep from being oppressed.
Today most of the descendants of those individuals are boot licking defenders of their own oppressors.
Happy semi quintessential, fuckers.