RIP, McAfee.
In the 20th century: ~8 million were murdered in mundane crimes. ~175 million people were murdered by the state.
Democracy is just violence in disguise. Pure evil.
Tax evasion is theft from the public. Tax evaders steal from you.
And this is not only because 99% of whatever you pay in tax doesn't come back in terms of services that actually have any value, but because it's rotten at its very foundations.
No wonder in the 20th century 8 million people were victims of murder by mundane crimes committed by private citizens worldwide, while 175 million were murdered by the state.
You only think this because you were brainwashed by statism ever since you were a kid.
This can be flipped back to you without much effort:
You only think this because you were brainwashed by your preferred flavor of anarchism ever since you started reading those propaganda web sites on the internet.
Making such a claim doesn't bring any value to the conversation and only serves to estrange you from this community, which is a form of self-ostracization and self-censorship, which in itself is quite funny and ironic.
No, you're lying. The state is an artificial construction, and I'm advocating the lack of thereof. I'm not promoting the construction of an institution that is supported by enslaving men and women. If you're, finding a way to defend this sick vision of the world is on you.
> Making such a claim doesn't bring any value to the conversation and only serves to estrange you from this community, which is a form of self-ostracization and self-censorship, which in itself is quite funny and ironic.
In other words: you disagree with me, and you want to ostracize me, and would be happy to see me estranged by society. This is a psychopath thinking. If I were you, I'd rethink it.
You only think this because you were brainwashed by your preferred flavor of anarchism ever since you started reading those propaganda web sites on the internet.
See how easy it is to debate using your style?
On a serious note - government and state are self-emergent phenomenons in any society. The problem you really have is how much control that society has over it’s governance and how much accountability people in government have.
But instead of discussing actually interesting things you choose to regurgitate slogans and propaganda from anarchist websites, firmly entrenching yourself into confirmation, sunk cost and other biases, without actually trying to understand the subject.
If you think you've a right to enslave people and kidnap then if they somehow avoid to pay ransom, you're evil. Period. No lame excuses can justify such atrocity.
Rape and murdering disabled people is also associated with humanity. Do you waste your time looking for arguments to defend them? I certainly not, and I really hope you don't.
Just putting everything in a bucket, and saying "oh, it's society, just accept it" doesn't cut it.
Slightly better way to put it IMHO: Democracy is the tyranny of the masses.