[quote]Ryan P. McCarter wrote:
[quote]orion wrote:Well yes, in order to stay alive you need to go through some trouble.
Significantly less if you work in your chosen profession and pay others do provide you with food and shelter, but you can easily choose to do it yourself.
You do not even have to move.
It is not as if you are forced to move or to go to jail in order to avoid that, in the case of taxes, that is exactly what you have to do.
Now that may be an insignificant detail to you, but having to say goodbye to your friends and family or be thrown into a cage is at least quite a big deal for some.[/quote]
And what would you call digging a garden, planting crops, and cultivating them every day until they come in, since you expect people to do this if they have a problem with private enterprise? Is that not a pretty big deal, especially since you probably still have a day job to work? What am I supposed to do until the crop comes in? Beg? Raise livestock too? What is a person who lives in, for instance, New York city, supposed to do at all? Not many cultivable plots in Manhattan.
Seems to me saying goodbye to your family and friends is of small consequence compared to your alternative. Especially since, if you are to actually do what you are suggesting, you’ll have to bid them goodbye anyway, as you won’t have time to see them, what with all the tilling, planting, fertilizing, and slaughtering you’ll be doing.[/quote]
That would be terribly inconvenient, yes, and that is what most people did most of their lives before evil capitalism freed them from that toil.
I can name a few other things that are equally annoying, like disease, death, drougths, floods, hail, asteroids and viruses.
Again, take it up with God or the universe, there is noone to blame.
If however someone walks up to me and demands my money at gunpoint I know exactly whom to boame and incidentally, if it is not done by governments it is universally seen as wrong.