I feel like I'm in crazytown when I express distress about taxation - literally people forcibly taking away your property - and ppl act like I'm the crazy one. Sure, you could argue that this forcible theft is worth it, and I'll respect that, but it's still not crazy to be upset.
His argument is that the property never really belonged to you - if this is the case, then the person/entity who owns that property should be able to do what they want with it, no? And one of the few uses of justified force in libertarianism is for protecting people from that
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The only way of determining who owns what is through laws/governing structure. If there were no laws a scammer/fraudster now owns the money/property they scam away. It still “belongs” to the person they scammed it from only to the degree that laws/the state get it back for them
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So isn’t the larger point that all money and property really works this way? There amount of money/property that’s yours is necessarily a question left up to laws/governing structure — unanswerable by individuals alone?
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Why assume a single entity must own the property? Why can't it be e.g. the common wealth of humanity, used for the benefit of everyone/"owned" by nobody in particular? In which case, government isn't justified in taking it arbitrarily (the details matter), but neither are you
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