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["Andrew C. Oliver" <acoliver AT buni.org>]

> And if myself and 10 of my neighbors are doing our own thing and not 
> hurting
> anybody,
> why should 299,999,990 other folks be able to say "You live in our Country
> so you
> have to obey these rules and pay these taxes?"  In other words, I consider
> "The State"
> to be an artificial construct, which is necessarily inferior to the
> Individual.

Because:

1. We outnumber you.
2. If you had your way the state would be too weak to do anything to 
stop us.
3. We may not own the state (rich people/entities do), but we do have a 
rather sizable stake, see #1.
4. The state has lots of guns.

If there were no state:

1. We'd still outnumber you.
2. You'd still be paying a local warlord
3. We'd still not own the local warlord but we'd still outnumber him (in 
most cases in some cases his programs to eradicate us would be more 
successful see Uganda) and thus he'd best not piss us off too much.
4. The warlord would still have lots of guns

This is the natural order of things.  Get used to it :-)

> TTYL,
>
>
> Phil
>
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