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Re: Is space property?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 2 Jan 2001 15:04:12 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher L. Weeks writes:
> When you pay your government [taxes] to kill people, it is the moral
> equivalent of killing them yourself.
Just a minor nitpick; if the money to fund such killings is taken from you
against your will and beyond your reasonable power to resist, you are not
morally responsible for what is done with that money. If a person breaks
into your house and steals some money, buys a bat with it, and clubs someone
to death, you're not responsible in any way. Even if I give you five
bucks-- without having any say in its spending--and you buy a glass with it,
break it, and kill me with the shards, have I morally committed suicide?
Dave!
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| (...) Hi Dave, I get your point, but... The payment of taxes is (normally considered) a proper and right thing. So it feels different (even to me) than being burgled. (How often do you write a check to your burgler?) And, I do know that the (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) And I think that the removal of forced wealth reallocation, particularly when the wealth was not gained corruptly is unfair. Fixing that problem would "push things in the _direction_ of fairness." (...) There are two issues. One is that the US (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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