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"If you don't like it, move to a different country; you implicitly consent by staying here" is an argument I hear a lot from people when I complain about taxes, but is mysteriously absent when I complain about things like the drug war or bad policing

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Well, because you get a vote in who and how policing is conducted. The reason you get a vote is because you're a citizen. Granted, it's not perfect and is subject to corruption, but less so than a private option by a country mile.

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It honestly seems more and more like you're desperate to cling to the idea you're being stolen from, no matter the arguments presented against that. Measured against the fact you only *seem* to care since you are earning enough for it to make a difference.

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Not to mentione even if you were right (I disagree) that people don't voice the drug war, but do with this. That only gets you as far as a fallacy of relative privation. Which is to say nothing. Fact remains you absolutely can move, and are consistently choosing not to, why?

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My mom has bad health issues and might die soon, and I am afraid of being unable to see her when the time comes.

3:53 AM · Apr 25, 2021

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Which is a choice you make, a good and well reasoned one. Still a choice. You quite literally earn so much you could even move your mother too. Even in bad health Even if you couldn't, you understand the state provided and enforced the currency your mother is treated under.