Subj : Re: free speech
To : Arelor
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Wed Jun 04 2025 05:13 pm
-=> 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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