Government as an axiom

[Zay]

I believe that the whole concept of the nation-state is outdated. If you measure the extent of a government's power through how many decisions it can make for you, then the end-result of educated and morally-objective populations would be no government at all. Every Utopian ideal that involves a coercive government is inherently wrong(communism, fascism, socialism, totalitarianism, whatever) for a simple reason. That reason being that if you believe humans are capable of organizing themselves into a perfect society, then nobody would need to be forced to do anything.

When you debate abortion, gun laws, gay marriage, anti-discrimination, and you choose the morally-objective, correct, libertarian route of complete rights so long as you don't interfere with the rights of others, you see that at the root of all those "debates" is the amount of education/common-sense/intelligence of the people.

Being that no government today functions without force/violence, government is the complete anti-thesis to freedom, not the protector/defender of freedom. Governments may exist, but they should be completely voluntary, including taxes. You join a government by choice, you should get a suggestion sheet telling you what percentage of your income would make a reasonable contribution to charities. No IRS agents with guns should ever be allowed to steal money from your paycheck. Violence is only acceptable in self-defense, be it from wolves, bears, or a person of an unsound mind infringing on your freedom.

Governments keep defying all expectations and oppressing people because of the gray area we axiomatically assign to them. Every elected official is a human, morals that can't be applied to everyone inherently fail, therefore if you can't initiate violence, steal money from someone else, steal property from someone else, put a gun to a doctor's head and force him to treat you for an illness, etc. then why should the government be allowed to?