You are viewing a single comment's thread from:
RE: "Life is hard" - Profound encouragement from three unlikely words
Not sure if it's a smart idea to put politics in between you and your friends. I mean, come on, how can you ask them such a question:
Yeah, but I mean, do you support me being put in a cage if I choose to keep what is mine!?
Perhaps rephrasing it works out the dilemma: Is it smart to put someone very productive behind bars where he can't be productive anymore?
No, it doesn't and it also doesn't put your friends into a situation they don't deserve to be in.
Nah, it was all in context. We talk about philosophical things all the time. It’s a totally fair question even now, it just was a bad night to try and actually discuss it.
Not politics at all, either, to be fair. Quite the opposite.
Regardless of a person’s perceived productivity or lack thereof, it is immoral to cage a human for not paying one money.
Well, if this caging might be applied if there is a contract containing that rule in case of a non-payment. If you consider the legal system as extension of every contract and you accept it implicitly by signing it, then there is a legal base for a potential caging. Question is how this applies to taxes: Is entering a public road with your car (or the possibility for you to do so) like signing a contract with the government that charges you for using it by taxing your income? In case of yes, then the government does have the right to cage you for non-compliance. Or perhaps take away your car if you enter the public road with it.
If I force you to pay for a service you did not consent to use or pay for, is that moral, even if you have no choice but to use the "service" to live? Of course not.