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Witness all your pro slavery arguments get taken behind the woodshed and slain by MW4Liberty... "Them: "Taxation isn't theft because we have the “consent of the governed” through the vote. Me: "That is an interesting definition of consent. Tell me. if a group of five people encounters a lone traveler, and four of them vote to take his bag, does the vote make the taking an act of “sharing” rather than “robbery”? Them: "No, that’s just a mob. We have laws and a social contract." Me: "Ah, so the number of people involved doesn't change the nature of the act? If the mob grows to a million, is the traveler’s bag still his property?” Them: "Well, yes. But we vote on things we all need! It’s for the common good." Me: "I see. Let us test the “common good” logic against the most private property of all: the body. If a crowd of men decides, by majority vote, that a woman’s body should be used for their pleasure or “the common good” of the tribe, does the vote grant her consent?" Them: "That’s a horrific comparison! No! That is a violent crime because her body belongs to her, not the crowd." Me: "So we agree: A person’s body is theirs by right, and no amount of voting can transfer that ownership to the majority?" Them: "Obviously." Me: "Then tell me - what is labor? Is it not the use of one's body and time over a day, a month, or a year?" Them: "I suppose it is." Me: "If I own my body, I must own my labor. And if I own my labor, I must own the fruit of that labor - the wages I earned. If the crowd cannot vote to take my body, by what logic can they vote to take the product of my body’s work?" Them: "But how would we fund things? How would we protect the poor? Without income taxes, everything would collapse!" Me: "So, the theft of labor, ie one’s body, is necessary because you cannot imagine a better way to pay for things?" Them: "It’s not theft! It’s the price we pay for society!" Me: "If a man steals your car but uses the money to buy bread for the hungry, has the theft vanished? Or do we simply have a thief with a good excuse?" Them: "You’re being impossible. It’s just how the world works!" Me: No, it is you being impossible. Impossible in that you wish to fit two opposing ideas into the same. The “consent” you speak of is merely a mask. You do not believe in the vote; you believe in the utility of the haul. You are a man who claims he hates violence, yet asks his friends to vote on which neighbor to rob for dinner. Oh, and it doesn’t have to work this way. But it will as long as people think the way you think…" https://x.com/i/status/2047751239014994052

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