Brian Blackwell
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- Mar 10, 2018
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If you're serious, I think you have a serious problem. Government has to have authority over all area within it's boarders including private property or there would be no point in having government at all.Funny you should cite sovereignty... so a government has sovereignty over land stolen from others, but an individual doesn't have sovereignty over himself? You pay property tax on land you "own" - that's called "rent" and it means you don't actually own it. The government lays claim to your land, and even your mind. They can dictate to you which states of consciousness you are permitted to experience via drug laws. So their "sovereignty" trumps yours? By what right? Are they something more than men? The Feds can't "issue" shit, because they don't own it. Their claim is just an unfounded assertion. No one could have a valid claim to a tract of land that large.
Property rights extend from man's labor. If you build a house, you can be said to own that house. It's reasonable that you should claim the area immediately surrounding it, and yes, there is a grey area about where that boundary should be drawn. But there is no such thing as owning an entire continent. Any justification for such nonsense is just made up out of whole cloth, and has no natural law basis.
Are you serious or are you being facetious?
I'm serious. If government has authority over the area within its claimed borders, then you don't have authority over your own property. What could be more obvious? Their laws apply on "your" property, just as anywhere else, you pay them property tax (rent), and they claim the right to take the property if they "need" it (eminent domain). They are your landlord. You own nothing, according to them. Not your land, not your body, not your mind - nothing. They have their claws in all of it.
We're in complete agreement. I believe there is no point in having government at all. Or better said, the only point in having government is to launder immorality (to justify immorality such that it appears moral). After all, governmental authority is additional rights above and beyond those of the individual, and what do we call actions which individuals do not have a right to perform? We call them wrong or immoral.
It's good to have another anarcho-capitalist on the board.
Jeez, tell me about it. Thank you for existing.