• the_frumious_bandersnatch@programming.dev
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    2 years ago

    I would collect taxes if I held the power of physical violence over a community. All taxation is theft, amiright?

    But seriously, stealing is a crime because prevailing thought within the community is that taking something that someone else has a claim on is wrong. If the prevailing thought was that it was not wrong, it wouldn’t be against the law, but we also would call it something else… Like taxation.