The state will be happy to give you the myriad of reasons why it presumes to have a claim on you and your life. In fact it does so constantly in its schools, media, and institutions.

I'm constantly perplexed as to how a monopoly on force could ever be spun to equal goodness. How does it deem itself to be necessary when any service it provides is rife with waste, inefficiency, gross mismanagement and by default ignores the needs or wants of the individual in favor of the group?

Is that their claim on me and you, their right to malfunction on the job, to even exist? That's stupid and I can't buy into that, not even on my worst day. I don't want to speak for anyone else, but I refute their claim on me, my mind, my efforts or anything associated with me.

The 100% voluntary and peaceful “society” that I now wholeheartedly, and forever will subscribe to, is based on 100% rational thought. It doesn't get bogged down by any nonsensical and philosophically weak notion that the state must threaten force for noncompliance with each and every transaction it does with and against the public.

The state says that people are no good and must by default, be continually bossed around. I say that the state has not validated its insane assumption of goodness or ridiculous call for a need for it by the people. It has proven time and again that its “one size fits all” (non)solutions only truly benefit those that administer the programs.

People (not all of them, of course) are good. They are charitable and kind with a deep sense of empathy as we are talking of our fellow human beings. Ordinary people have not lost track of that although the state can't even gain a tiny grasp on such a contention.

Government lacks that necessary empathy when dealing with people. Before it can even dream that it has a claim on me, or anyone else, it first needs to at least change it's very way of doing business. Of course this would be impossible because the state, any state, by default cannot do what it does anywhere on earth in a way that fosters peace between itself and the people, help individuals on a one-on-one basis, or make what it does somehow right. They just can't pull it off.

You may not in good conscience or any semblance of reality crown the scorpion as a “defender of all bugs”. To do so makes you look absurd and further diminishes your respectability with all. Government is just naive enough (and wishes we were equally clueless) to hold itself out as that so-called “defender”.

Perhaps it is just the age old tradition of the state as “boss” throughout history that makes them believe a claim on me exists, as they really don't have anything going on for them other than that. Maybe it is just long held custom that dictates their foul diktat. I'm not buying into that either, of course.

The state has nothing, no surprise there.

With Liberty,

Dan Steward