Statism is when

in #politics8 years ago (edited)


A bulleted list depicting the nature of statism.

  • Statism is when a group of people imperiously claim themselves as a central authority, and people agree to it.
  • Statism is when a central authority is thought to hold an exemption from morality and personal culpability.
  • Statism is when coercion is used as an acceptable means to reach various desired ends.
  • Statism is when a central authority holds a monopoly on violence.
  • Statism is when you can be legally caged for disobeying an imperious authority, despite creating no victims.
  • Statism is when people can immorally use a central authority as a proxy to reach their desired ends.
  • Statism is when everybody's self-ownership is constantly challenged by an imperious authority.
  • Statism is when an central authority makes a higher claim to your child than the one that you have.
  • Statism is when an central authority can use your unborn children as collateral to borrow money at interest now.
  • Statism is when a central authority is believed to have the highest claim to the life and property of each individual.
  • Statism is when people are assigned numbers as a part of their identities.
  • Statism is when an imperious authority claims the right to steal from nearly every consensual transaction.
  • Statism is when you owe a portion of the --------
  • Statism is when you are required to pay rent to an imperious authority for land that you can never truly own.
  • Statism is when social and economic policies are centrally planned and imposed on you.
  • Statism is when you are coerced to fund your own subjection to forced association.
  • Statism is when you are coerced to fund the oppression of others and yourself through paying compulsory taxes.
  • Statism is when an individual, or a minority's rights are violated on behalf of “the common good”.
  • Statism is when people are told what they can and can't put in their own body.
  • Statism is when people are coerced by an imperious authority to make certain exchanges.
  • Statism is when a imperious authority tries to dictate how and what you can purchase.
  • Statism is when certain consensual interactions that result in no victims are forbidden.
  • Statism is when an imperious authority uses coercion to get people to perform, or not perform certain actions.
  • Statism is when you need to pay an imperious authority for a permission slip to do a marriage ritual.
  • Statism is when you need to pay an imperious authority for permission to do things that create no victim.

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This is the one that really gets under my skin and should be a wake up call for everyone "Statism is when people are told what they can and can't put in their own body"

I guess they all get under there but seriously, my body my choice- and I choose to avoid "their" so called Safe to Eat Additives as well !!!

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