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<blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 772917" data-attributes="member: 2189"><p>I think you'll find yourself in a fairly large majority with your answer but consider this POV. If I walk into a business and because I happen to be in a geographic area they own, I'm now required by law to purchase goods and or services from them and under no conditions am I allowed to do otherwise. I can't look over their goods or services and then freely leave to seek another company for those goods or services but rather I'm compelled under force and penalty of harm or confinement if I don't "volunteer" to do as I'm told. Is that a form of theft among other things?</p><p> </p><p>The other scenario is I walk into a business and again I'm in a geographic locale that they own and control but this time I'm allowed to freely look over the goods and services, ask questions of which they freely answer and yet if I'm not satified, I can leave at any moment, never having partaken of their goods or services and then leave to either seek those goods and services elsewhere or just do without. Does this also meet any form of theft?</p><p> </p><p>The Declaration of Independence sez "all men are created EQUAL" meaning all men have equal standing to one another. I have no more station or rights in life than you and the opposite is of equal truth. Therefore, can equals then form a collective choosing among them a single person to act as authority and then by sheer will of numbers force another equal to comply with their wishes when it is not their voluntary desire for whatever reason to do so?</p><p> </p><p>If equals in private business who compell others are seen as evil, wicked and scum, then why does this same truth not apply to people that operate in a public sphere we call gov't?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wkmac, post: 772917, member: 2189"] I think you'll find yourself in a fairly large majority with your answer but consider this POV. If I walk into a business and because I happen to be in a geographic area they own, I'm now required by law to purchase goods and or services from them and under no conditions am I allowed to do otherwise. I can't look over their goods or services and then freely leave to seek another company for those goods or services but rather I'm compelled under force and penalty of harm or confinement if I don't "volunteer" to do as I'm told. Is that a form of theft among other things? The other scenario is I walk into a business and again I'm in a geographic locale that they own and control but this time I'm allowed to freely look over the goods and services, ask questions of which they freely answer and yet if I'm not satified, I can leave at any moment, never having partaken of their goods or services and then leave to either seek those goods and services elsewhere or just do without. Does this also meet any form of theft? The Declaration of Independence sez "all men are created EQUAL" meaning all men have equal standing to one another. I have no more station or rights in life than you and the opposite is of equal truth. Therefore, can equals then form a collective choosing among them a single person to act as authority and then by sheer will of numbers force another equal to comply with their wishes when it is not their voluntary desire for whatever reason to do so? If equals in private business who compell others are seen as evil, wicked and scum, then why does this same truth not apply to people that operate in a public sphere we call gov't? [/QUOTE]
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