Those who apply for “government benefits,” for example, are asking to receive loot forcibly stolen from their neighbors via “taxation.” Likewise, applying for a “government” job amounts to asking that one’s neighbors be forced to pay one’s salary. Whether the person receives a direct payment or some service, program, or other benefit, he will usually accept the stolen property without the slightest hint of shame or guilt. He may otherwise be perfectly neighborly to the people whom he asked the state to rob. In no other situation does such a strange mental disconnect occur, not only for the one advocating the act of aggression but also for the victim of it. If, for example, one person had paid an armed thief to break into his neighbor’s house and steal some of his valuables, and the neighbor knew he had done so, such neighbors would probably not be on friendly terms (to say the least). Yet when the same thing is done using “authority,” via elections followed by “legislative” theft, neither the thief nor the victim usually perceives anything wrong with it.
Posted on: Wed, 08 Oct 2014 05:03:40 +0000
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