What is this "citizenship" thing I have heard so much about? If you want to sell me on the idea, and get me to join up and be a "citizen", you'll have to do a better job of convincing me that it's in my best interest. So far I have seen no evidence of that.
No, I didn't consent when I was born, nor did I "implicitly consent" [sic] because I failed to move away from my friends, family, and home at some later time. Don't keep feeding your delusions about our imaginary "relationship".
These "services" you pretend to provide in exchange aren't good enough. In fact, most of them are downright unwanted and disgusting. Keep 'em. And don't expect me to pay for crap I don't want. Understand? Yeah, I didn't think so. ("idiot!")
For a relationship of this type to work, I realize there are obligations on both sides. I'm sure you have quite a list; mine is simple, but non-negotiable.
First off, before we get into what you expect of me, let me tell you my conditions- your obligations, if this is to be considered.
First- Don't interfere with my Natural Rights or my defense of them.
That means don't steal from me, don't attack me, and don't whine when I defend myself from those who do. And NEVER get in the way when I need to protect my life, liberty, or property- from anyone, including your hired thugs.
Second- Don't ever do any of those things to other people, claiming it is on my behalf. It's not. I don't consent.
Until you can abide by those conditions, we have no "relationship"- you are just a bully barging in where you are not welcome. Go away.
... Wait... There was no one here. I was talking to myself all along. The State is an imaginary mental construct without any basis in reality whatsoever. Whew! That was close!
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Unfortunately, that imaginary mental construct exists in too many minds. Minds that have guns.
ReplyDeleteKeep on keepin' on, though, Kent. We need to keep lighting brush fires in minds to burn out those imaginary constructs.
"...The state is the central abstraction by which a catastrophically wrong idea is placed into practice. It is the organized system for employing violent action (or its threat) on the part of individuals, for as noted before, only individuals act. This rationalization occurs on two levels, first by diffusing responsibility to a fiction and second by inducing a group-think inven of strsioandards.
ReplyDeleteBelief in the state provides the means for individuals to avoid their own perception of responsibility..." ~David Calderwood
Thanks for the article, Hawk.
Sam
Formatting error in last 3 words of first paragraph (Calderwood's quotation). Should read:
ReplyDelete"...and second by inducing a group-think inversion of standards."
Sorry.
Sam