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shiranaihito  ·  3221 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Repugnant Conclusion

You're bouncing all over the place, so I'll just put out a feeler response here, to see whether writing a comprehensive one might be worthwhile.

    you're equating a trade of goods/services for taxes as "enslavement" when that's just an exchange.

Are you seriously calling taxation "just an exchange"? Do you want me to believe you don't know how taxes are collected, and what happens if you don't pay them?

    Additionally, you're going on about how this system makes it easier for rulers to rule. So what? If everyone is better off because of it, then why does that matter?

Well, for starters, everyone is actually worse off because of it, because that's just how ruling over people works. Everyone would personally be better off getting to keep and use all of their own property as they see fit.

Besides, each individual's personal prosperity would contribute to the society's overall prosperity, or perhaps.. "happiness", if that suits you better.