It is pretty cut and dry. If you're not able to choose freely how to live your life, you're simply not free. If you don’t agree with that, at what percentage of force put upon you do you lose your status of being a free human being?
When faced with questions like this, many people will Red Herring the conversation and say, "well, we're the most free country compared to other countries around the world." It's debatable if that is even remotely true or not, but let’s look at that argument for a second.
If you were in a group of friends that were all bullied in school, and you were the one who was bullied the least amongst your group, would you brag about how your bully is the most lenient and noble because you had your lunch money stolen and was only dumped in the garbage can twice last week? No you wouldn’t, because you would see the insanity of it all. And if you did, most dictionaries would define that way of thinking as Stockholm Syndrome.
There are a host of arguments that you will hear from those who try to defend the force of the state and those arguments have been debunked many times over. I won’t address any more of them because it is simply not needed to prove my point. And the point is, if you say you are a person who believes in freedom on one hand but says that people shouldn’t have the choice to opt out of a system of force on the other hand, you are being logically inconsistent. You either believe in freedom or you don’t.
So the question is, should people be free to opt out of a system that they don’t agree with or should they be forced to participate in it? Only one of these positions is that of freedom.
-RH
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