Playing the victim undercuts the quality of your argument. If you have a magic wand that will abolish the welfare state, please wave it. I'll be eternally grateful. If you don't have such a wand, as I suspect you don't, please do me the courtesy of refraining from the implication that I am putting a gun to your head when I am in fact attempting to dispel the mob that's yelling to have the trigger pulled.

In no way have I affected or plan to usurp your ability to disagree with me. Jumping to that sort of woe is me rhetoric is cheap and unbecoming of someone who would defend their individual rights. You barely addressed the merits of my counter-argument and, even so, smothered your own counter in poor conflation and passive-aggressive detritus.

Unless you plan to go to war, which you seem to rightly abhor, you'll have to argue and vote the Welfare State away and until that comes to pass you'll need a border to prevent foreign ideologies from conquering your own. You will not be able to do that in any successful manner if the membership of your ideology is outnumbered and thereby outvoted. Pulling the victim card is the same bull shit that's used to import votes that would have you jailed or killed for your views on government. It's shameful that you would stoop to such a tactic when you clearly have the ability to form an effective argument. It would seem, however, you lack the balls to fight for your ideology and such a lacking characteristic is what's allowed the government to grow to its current state of power. In your words: Come on man! Can't you see that living in your fantasy is what's enabled the government to perpetrate its violence to the degree that it has? You can't simply wish the problem away. You have to MAKE it go away. You have to DO something to manifest the intention and meaning behind your argument.

My argument will remain, until compelling evidence to the contrary is provided, that compelling the financial interests that the U.S. government is beholden to in a direction that will lead away from the initiation of force and to personal property rights is the most effective way to manifest the intentions you espouse. If you don't pay taxes, the government can jail you. Is that morally wrong? Yes. However, morality will not stop you from being jailed. Taxation must be dealt with at the source and you can only do that through voting or war. As I detest war, I choose to vote.

Instead of wallowing in your victimization, perhaps you could take your talents which are clear enough in your writing and work towards convincing people to dismantle the welfare state so that your ideal existence can actually exist to a sustainable degree. Doesn't that sound more productive than being a passive aggressive little bitch?

For the record: My appreciation for your article is unaltered. I enjoyed disagreeing with you. Keep it up! Just don't play the victim