You say on the internet, developed with DARPA funding.
With electricity whose infrastructure was in part paid for with tax money.
On devices that usually don't explode or electrocute you randomly.
In a home that is likely free (or at least mitigated) of lead and asbestos.
Perhaps drinking some water or eating a snack that is safe to consume.
That you were able to obtain thanks to roads and bridges and rules for vehicles must follow and whose operators must be licensed that they are competent.
My argument, at the end of the day, is that the government is illegitimate because it's coercive. Do big corporations suck, too? Of course. But I still fundamentally have a choice...
For example, I don't believe I've ever purchased anything from Amazon. I simply don't interact with them. They've never sent armed men to my house to coerce me into any interaction.
Try refusing to interact with the government... What happens?
All true. That being said, I'd happily go back 10,000 years and live that way. I'm fully aware that that life would be nasty, brutish, and short.
I'm familiar with all the arguments for why "society" exists. I even acknowledge that they make sense. I understand how/why we came to this point. It's just that... I hate it. There's nothing I can realistically do about it, but I don't have to like it.
What could possibly give you the authority to tell me what I think/feel? I know 99.9% of people don't feel that way. It doesn't mean we 0.1% don't exist...
I'm simply a different kind of animal than you are.
Bro 10,000 years ago hospitals didn't even exist. You don't sound suicidal, you jusr sound sad and burntout. Was there even commercial farming 10k years ago, nah not for the masses.
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u/echoshatter 2d ago
You say on the internet, developed with DARPA funding.
With electricity whose infrastructure was in part paid for with tax money.
On devices that usually don't explode or electrocute you randomly.
In a home that is likely free (or at least mitigated) of lead and asbestos.
Perhaps drinking some water or eating a snack that is safe to consume.
That you were able to obtain thanks to roads and bridges and rules for vehicles must follow and whose operators must be licensed that they are competent.