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RE: Your rights end where the rights of others begin
I find that type of logic is too reductionist. It's not (always) like a mugger. It's more of an evolution from tribal society where you share berries with the one who shares meat, into the democratically elected society we have today. (With roads and firefighters and everything you can't realistically do as an individual.)
You may find the truth "too reductionist", but it is still the truth. Theft is theft, even if the scale is different. You may call it "taxation" or "war", but the vastly larger scale doesn't make it better than a mugging or a murder. The larger scale makes it worse (except, possibly, to the individuals robbed or killed).
You don't have to share berries or meat, you can trade (including selling). In a situation like that everyone wins. Politics is a bad system where there is always a winner and a loser-- someone "wins" at the expense of someone else. And, even if someone has nothing tangible to trade, they may have knowledge or skills. And, if not, do they have some other value which would encourage you to give them food? Maybe you just don't want to see them die.
Personally, if someone has no value, but is only a drain on society (muggers, cops, rapists, tax collectors, etc.) I am fine with letting them starve to death if they can't change their parasitic ways. I think few people would choose to continue to be a violator under those circumstances.
Democracy is just a cute euphemism for mob rule. The rights of a majority NEVER outweigh the rights of an individual. Not even if the v*te is 7 billion to 1.
I love working together with other people to do things none of us could do alone. But there is nothing I want bad enough to steal from my neighbors to get it. If it is wanted, people will chip in. If not enough people chip in, then the service/product isn't wanted enough and those who still want it need to make other arrangements.