Simply put, anarchism is the Golden Rule.

What you don't want done to you, don't do to others.

It never fails to amaze me--the power of the human mind to be fantastically inconsistent.

In America there is a nation full of "Christians" who claim to live by this golden rule, yet when the topic of "government" comes up, they drop it like a hot piece of stinking animal excrement and start to talk about how we have to live "sensibly."

You can walk them through the logic. It matters not. What people choose not to believe, they will not believe.

I am going to break down these issues here very concisely. I hope you will share this post with your statist family and friends.

1. Taxation is Theft.

• You own your body (no one else but you can directly operate your body).
• Thus, you own the money made with this body. (If not you, who else?)
• Thus, taking someone's money by force is wrong, because it is theirs via their body.
• Taxes are money ultimately taken under the threat of violence and force. Don't pay, face guns.
• Thus, taxation is theft.

2. The "Constitution" is an Immoral and Impotent Document.

• "Congress shall have the power to lay and collect taxes (theft)"
• This means that this document presumes to have authority over future generations and other people who did not voluntarily sign it or agree to it.
• We all know that contracts not mutually and voluntarily entered into are invalid. If a contract depends on force/violence, it cannot be said to be a contract at all.
• Being that the U.S. constitution advocates theft (taxation) and violence in order to enforce its precepts, it is immoral.
• People's natural rights are still being violated left and right. The constitution has not prevented this.

3. Badges Don't Grant Extra Rights.

• Humans have equal natural rights. Namely the rights to person and property.
• Humans do not have the natural right to kidnap, harm, or kill other humans because of a difference of opinion.
• Stopping non-violent people in their cars (in non-self-defense), putting them in jail for a plant, and threatening to kill them for not giving up their property and income (taxation) is immoral, even if you have a sparkly star on your chest and a special "magic suit" called a "police uniform."

4. Economics.

• Humans need resources to live. Humans want various resources.
• Resources are scarce.
• Being that resources are scarce, conflict is inevitable.
• Conflict can and does turn violent if there is no standard, norm, or shared belief system with which to address the conflict.
• Austrian economics and the voluntaryist/anarchist property ethic address scarcity most cogently and successfully, where other systems (see Communism, Corporatism, Socialism, and Crony Capitalism) have failed historically and continue to fail to do so because they do not recognize each individual's natural right to self-ownership.
• Other systems fail because they do not recognize the individual as the primary unit from which all rights and norms must derive:

YOU OWN YOUR BODY, THUS YOU OWN YOUR LABOR, THUS YOU OWN THAT WHICH YOU EARN, MAKE, OR BUILD.

If a man builds a house on a plot of land, that house and that land that he has improved, is his. This is the only logical, sensible, and pragmatically sound way to build a foundation for a society where maximal peace is the end goal. All other systems are arbitrary. This system is praxeologically objective, based on nature itself.

Will their be "gray areas?" Sure. Aren't their gray areas now, already? If you can understand that even though you may not "go to jail" you should probably not swerve into oncoming traffic, then you can understand anarchism.

Look around. The world is being run by murderers.

Anarchists believe in life.

Christians and all other statists.

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If you believe in the golden rule, it's high time you started acting like it.
Do you want to be bombed?
Do you want to be pulled over and extorted on the side of the ride for a non-violent act?
Do you want to be forced to pay for somebody else's stuff at gunpoint?

THEN FUCKING STOP DOING IT TO US. AND FUCKING STOP ADVOCATING IT IN THE NAME OF "GOVERNMENT."

Anarchists are not against governANCE. We simply believe that ALL human interaction should be consensual....

don't you???

~KafkA

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Graham Smith is a Voluntaryist activist residing in Niigata, Japan.