Neopatriarch ✔️ Name and picture from twetch — not on-chain. The signature is; the profile is not.

Sounds good. I love it. I think freedom is one of the most important conversations in which we can be engaged.

I don't really. I would have to get permission from the US gov to leave. Even then I would still accrue a tax burden. Even when you expatriate yourself taxes continue to accrue, even though you recieve no benefit.

Perhaps, but thats just an argument to flee the city.

There was also less crime per capita.

A passport, like a license, is permission from the state. Your not free to do something that you need "permission" to do. Right?

You can ask any question you want. There are no dumb questions that are sincere.

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Even the rich are not "free" to leave California.

Without government there would be gangs killing each other and looting innocent neighborhood businesses. Oh wait, they do that now.

The "wild west" is largely a myth portrayed by movies. It was much safer than many places now under the control of government. Like the cities we discussed before, NY, Chicago, Atlanta...etc

Don't be sorry. I did not understand before either. I just thought things were just the way they were and there was no other way they could be.

I understand that people do not get it in the moment, but they can and do over time.

...maybe but I do not physically have to move. Just like my phone service, or my insurance. I can find something that is more to my liking.

Governments offer an array of services protection, mail, fire, and social services.

Why can I not simply get those services from another provider for a fee that we negotiate?

Unlike with Twitch. It's services are voluntary and I don't have to move to find other services.

It sounds like you are saying is that I cannot be free here, and that to achieve freedom I will have to move elsewhere.

If government was like Twitch. That would be great. I'd get the services I want and approve of, or Id use a different service.

Oh, yeah the government doesn't like it when you steal and kill.

It's not like Twetch at all.

Twetch is voluntary.

Twetch doesn't force my participation. It won't send thugs to my door to put me in a cage, beat me if I resist, or even kill me.

Can you think of anything the government has ever done that was immoral?

I am not trying to play you. I wan't to see if you can acknowledge that goverments are immoral. If only in part.

There are many things the government does that I think are immoral. I can list them and we can argue the morality of those things if you want.

Or we could just talk about the things you already think are immoral the the government does.

It has nothing to do with your feelings. Its simply a fact. The last people that tried to leave the "Union" were forcibly repatriated.

Don't worry, that will catch up with you. I see how it is though, you don't mind because you don't pay them. At least not recently.😁

The problem is: Who gets to determine this "greater good"?

Is it you? Or the state?

Is it someone you morally respect?

What do you do when you are forced to do the the lesser evil, rather than the greater good? It is still evil.

"President Trump is ordering the federal government to begin the process of defunding New York City and three other cities where officials allowed “lawless” protests and cut police budgets amid rising violent crime, "

Do you have unity among people that are compelled to be together under threat of force? A number of states have been discussing succession for decades.

And you are right about aliens whipping but.

It doesn't matter if you "don't mind paying taxes" it is not voluntary. That is why you cannot "pay less" even for the "services" that you morally oppose. If you do, eventually men with guns will come to collect it, and they may kill you if you resist.

...and of course the easiest answer is for those states to withhold the funds from the federal government that are now being withheld from them.

We could only hope for such a result. History tells us though that "free people" will not be allowed to leave the union. At least not peacefully.

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