Inconsistency is a hallmark of statism
Statism is so internally inconsistent that statists hallucinate inconsistency everywhere else, in everyone else. They can't even imagine anything like consistency.
I've seen statists hallucinate that the right of self-defense somehow justifies their support of an armed gang of badged government employees, funded with stolen money, imposing counterfeit rules at gunpoint, with little or no accountability. They imagine that recognizing this gang for what it is is somehow an endorsement of a free-for-all Mad Max world. They come to believe it's somehow different to shoot a rapist in the act of raping than it is to shoot a law enforcer committing an act of law enforcement.
I've seen statists claim that not supporting a government "border wall", funded with stolen money, built on stolen land, and maintained with stolen money, police state tactics, and coercion, is the same as not respecting private property rights. This is a hallucination caused by statism in the brain.
I could go on, but I'm sure you've seen plenty of examples of your own.
The statism requires this internal inconsistency in order to be maintained. They don't want to admit they have a problem, so they project their traits onto others so they won't feel bad. Being so inconsistent, they see inconsistency where it doesn't exist. They have a psychological need to find inconsistency in others to excuse it in themselves.
If people were internally consistent-- in reason and principles-- they wouldn't be statists.
Consistency doesn't guarantee an individual is right (you can be consistently wrong), but inconsistency guarantees an individual is wrong.
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Special pleading for the State doesn't fly. Statism is a giant bundle of sophistry and fallacy. But we are somehow the bad guys if we rock the boat.
In my opinion, they are projecting their need for mommy and daddy. They don't want to take responsibility for their own actions like a 3 year old. They also like the gang mentality because as long as it is perceived to benefit them, they don't mind the robbery.
Do you think government would be moral if it was voluntary? If these statists want their state so bad, they can have it but people who don't would be free to either be by themselves or form their own collective. My answer to that would be no, because I would think willingly being a slave is still immoral as well as the state enacting violence on others would also be immoral. It is no different than a street gang in my eyes. This is just something I have thought about from time to time. What are your thoughts on that?
I think if it were voluntary it wouldn't be government.
I wouldn't interfere if people wanted to have their own little voluntary "government" as long as "membership" or compliance wasn't decided by geography. Churches don't claim a monopolistic territory. Their "territories" overlap and coincide. People just join the one they like or opt out altogether*. If people don't want to join, leave them out of it. Governments should work the same way.
*When my older daughter was killed 3.5 years ago, my parents got a lot of local sympathy over the death of their granddaughter-- I got almost none for the death of my daughter. But I knew it was because I don't attend or belong to any of the churches that are so important to social life in this area. So there are costs to opting out. Just like there are costs to belonging.
Man that is so good, I agree with that totally. If there was freedom of association with these "governments", if they start going tyrannical, you just leave haha. I think it is the best of both worlds. I don't think some people will ever come around to not wanting a state... and i guess that is fine for them as long as it is a non-violent state, but yeah don't force be to be part of it.
Wow... I am so sorry to hear about your daughter. I can't even begin to grasp the pain of what losing one of my children would be like. My heart goes out to you man. Just know that you are a light to many in the world so I think she would be proud of the work you do and people you inspire :)
That is typical I guess, the more social you are and people that are involved in your business (which I personally don't like), the more outreach you might expect from the community. I am glad your parent's got sympathy, but yeah I would think things would have been harder on you and you would have seen some too.
Well thank you for sharing something so personal, I imagine it's not easy to talk about. I really appreciate that :)
I've written quite a bit about my daughter's death and the surrounding circumstances. It's not easy, but it may be better to get it out than keep it in.
For sure. I have always found that it helped me personally to talk about the death of my older brother (after some time passed and I was able to do) so and more recently of my father.