Topic: News: Bulgaria's Boevski Abused by Prisoners in Brazilian Jail - Lawyer

[John Way]

"tanks in every neihborhood (sic) and cameras in every home presumably, in every corner of the world, at taxpayer [slave] expense,"

presumably you are making this all up, when one starts scare & fear tactics like this one has already lost the arguement, and taken the football home

[Chris Ⓐ LeRoux]

Well, let's hope you begin to retreat from all the violence you endorse. If you repudiate the use of tanks and cameras to get your way and stop people from putting things in their own body you don't like, thats a good start. Now, repudiate all the rest of it, the searches, the taxes, the imprisonment, the murder, and you begin to repudiate the violent authoritarianism you have been preaching.

[John Way]

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/why-this-shop-shifted-95m-20111119-1noec.html

[Chris Ⓐ LeRoux]

Yes, government is indeed terrorism, the use of violence to make people do what you want and achieve political goals.

[John Way]

I think people generally do whatever they want to, especially when it has benefits, regardless of human rights & the freedom of others

[Chris Ⓐ LeRoux]

Some do, particularly if they are ignorant of or reject the non-aggression principle. This is exactly why government is impractical as well as immoral; why people should never be made rulers and should never be granted the power to legally steal from other people. Anarcho-capitalism is the only system which ensures equality under the law and which therefore doesn't offer the temptations of power. All money must be earned through voluntary exchange or is recognized as theft-slavery by the law, with no "special people" to whom the law does not apply.

[John Way]

Would there ever be a acceptable reason for an Anarcho-capitalist to accept Social Security benefits?

[Chris Ⓐ LeRoux]

Yes, in the context of a statist society that is based on taxation-slavery. Since the government uses violence against everyone within its range to take what it wants, it is self-defense to take back what you can get from the slave-master. So is lying to the state, "stealing" from the state, using the roads it monopolizes by force while avoiding gas-sales taxes, licenses, tickets, and registrations, using the fire department, taking welfare, accepting bailouts, taking student loans, etc.  ALL violence is self-defense against the government but such violence is not a moral requirement. Like the slave on the plantation, if you ask him if he will stop eating the master's foods to prove he can take care of himself, he will say sure but set me free first. Ancaps are thus free to either go along and make the best of the state's tyranny (as long as they don't advocate for more of it) or rebel, revolt, and disobey.