Re: Simple reason why I do not think taxation = theft
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It's difficult because he's been conditioned to believe the basis of his beliefs rests on absolute truth. Waking up to this fallacy has apparently not been easy for him.
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Um, what? Since I still do believe in objective morality, I haven't 'woken up' to anything. What 'fallacy' I have I committed? Even if I were wrong about ethics being objective (which is not the same thing as believing in 'absolute truth'), I wouldn't have committed a fallacy anymore than a scientist who was mistaken about the nature of, say, gravity.
Honestly, what's the point of responding? Why would you bother responding since things we derive from reason are apparently just 'assertions' and 'opinions' (though for some reason we're not surprised when lots of other people arrive at the same totally arbitrary opinions!).
Well, that's enough of that rant--I guess I'll return to living in my horribly misguided world of fallacious ethics and truths handed down to me straight from the mouth of God.
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