Whenever I hear people saying they have a "right to free x service" I imagine them holding a gun to the person who has to do the work to provide them that service.
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I feel vividly aware of all implied force in whatever nice-sounding things people day should happen
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I assume you've heard of the concept of "positive rights" and "negative rights"?
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Or you can provide public funding to pay people to do that work, and they do it voluntarily as a result, no guns required.
(of course that requires taxation so ultimately guns are still involved)
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yea i just view it as pointing a gun at someone with money and saying "Pay that worker to give me this service or else I shoot"
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Really? 'Cuz I imagine the government paying for that service, with my taxes.
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taxes are taken by force, and if you don't pay them your wages are forcibly garnished, and maybe jail.
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love this. all state action should be visualized in such a way. the state holds a monopoly on legitimate violence! use that power carefully!
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The same people who have a bizarre hatred for landlords. That's not nearly as profitable as they apparently assume
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