Pay your taxes or we WILL put state sponsored violence upon you!

lol

Prove that I signed my birth certificate

Your foot print is usually on it...

so the state is a gang

good

Sounds like consent from someone who is at least 30 seconds old to me.

at least you're honest

XD

srs talk, the state is a criminal gang

change my mind

state condoned violence... yes, but not criminal

I don't think I can. Honestly, if it worked a tad differently, I might have an argument to give, but it definitely operates that way lately.

Still, anarchy is just a temporary state.

If they organize to maintain it, they become a government of some sort.

@RemoteObserver How is state sponsored violence ethically different from a private individual or group doing it?

my white controlled govt wouldn't have built such shitty fencing.

if I'm a gang, am I ehtically different if I suddenly call myself "The Government Gang" am I ethically justified?

Nothing is ethically justified

so ethics don't exist?

ahh shit here comes deconstructionism. Nothing is anything so anything can be anything. XD

Very true, but then you get in to the question of what defines a state/ideas of sovereignty or condoned social control. we had state condoned violence before the westpphalian treaty

@AiarUther that was to answer you

Well give me a definition that is consistent

give me a definition that I can apply to any organisation equally

What is gang violence?

Most of this made sense when there was still 'wilderness' to escape to

there is no real difference I agree.

good

so the government is a violent gang?

It makes sense to have structure when people live in dense populations. Now what that structure would be would be up for debate.

It's a gang that we are okay with using violence on our behalf

yep, but hopefully they are my violent gang, and better than the violent gang the other crowd have.!]

I wasn't questioning that

Well it's the answer

I just like a bit of ideological honesty

I've been reading your chat, and I don't see the point you're really trying to make

A government can be ethical in the simplest way if you start by establishing stuff like 1)don't rob people, 2) don't kill people for no reason. **shrug**

They always get larger from there

And usually less ethical.