Subj : Re: free speech
To   : Arelor
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Wed Jun 04 2025 17:13:41

-=> Arelor wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

 > It's also depriving the body politic of money that should be used to
 > provide for the common good, which is why it's bad.

 Ar> That would only be true if we accepted that the government has a
 Ar> legitimate claim to authority, which is debatable.

 Ar> ie. do you think it is ethical for a political party that got in power
 Ar> with 23% of the votes to build infrastructure which is clearly not
 Ar> needed while politicians and contractors divert 50% of the budget of
 Ar> each project to their pockets?

 Ar> When people condemns tax evasion they do so based on the idealized
 Ar> model of what the State is and what it does represent instead of what
 Ar> the government *actually is* and how it behaves in practice.

 I'd claim that the claim to authority is valid, but grift, while
 damaging isn't a reason to deny the claim.


 
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