The Little Engine that could, but chose not to
There once was a Little Engine.
It wasn't the biggest or the strongest engine, but it was a good little engine. It loved being useful and it loved helping when it could. This didn't pay well, and the Little Engine often ran short of fuel.
The Little Engine was told about a job for which a train was needed. A job that paid well. A job that was said to be helpful; hauling government troops and their equipment over a steep mountain to their next destination.
It wouldn't be an easy job but would push the Little Engine to its limits.
All its friends encouraged the Little Engine to do what they knew it was capable of. They knew it could get that job hauling troops over the mountain, even though the mountain was very steep, and usually only much more powerful engines did the job. They knew the Little Engine had heart, and a reserve of strength. The engine's friends kept saying "We know you can do it! It's a respectable job; supporting the troops! It pays well! You can do it! You can do it!"
But the little engine knew that the troops were armed government employees, used to impose the opinions of political bullies on others, by breaking things and killing people in places they have no right to be. The little engine knew that the troops were paid by a type of theft called "taxation", and that the pay for hauling the troops over the mountain would be obtained the same way.
The Little Engine had ethics and principles.
The Little Engine knew it could, but knew it shouldn't.
The Little Engine refused the job and was shut down by the federal government for being a suspected terrorist sympathizer.
The End.
Paraphrased from Jurrasic Park's Dr. Ian Malcolm:
"Humans were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."
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Hey @dullhawk the story was really good. I believe like the little train we all should never forget our morals and ethics ...these are the things which we are made of .
After reading this i went into my childhood days there used to come a cartoon show called Thomas the train loved it a lot
If that train had any decent liberal ideology he would have bullied his friends into joining the mission.
The Little Engine wasn't a statist, so no bullying. ;)
Well, that story had a depressing ending. :(
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Epilogue: The Little Engine is released from federal prison years later when the population finally comes to its senses and institutes a society where people are only entitled to something if it was voluntarily transferred to them (as a gift, donation or paid transaction etc.)
In line with the principle of rectification of injustice, a massive redistribution of wealth is underway, as governments pay back years of coerced taxes, and dispossessed people are compensated for the resources stolen from them by everyone from colonial states to multi-national corporations.
Does the Little Engine oppose this repair of past theft, violence and duress because his commitment to justice and voluntarism doesn't extend to giving back ill-gotten gains (and risk going back to jail)?
As long as the money to repay the victims of governing isn't stolen from others or counterfeited, the Little Engine is fine with it. Selling off all "government" property/land/possessions would be a good way to finance this sort of thing.