diff --git a/xx-justified-government-taxes.md b/xx-justified-government-taxes.md index 9844065..a78535e 100644 --- a/xx-justified-government-taxes.md +++ b/xx-justified-government-taxes.md @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ Why do we get to impose our particular legal system and to deny other people the We need to drill deeper into notions about how to deal with proportionate loss of rights for rights violators. The inductive link we're missing is: self-defense and the right of __producers__ to live. It's very important and particular: rights are for the preservation of producers; not for all persons. -Humans must live by production. Those persons who live by non-production are parasites. Parasites don't have rights. It's the interest of productive persons to banish parasites. [It seems we must talk about the parasites when discussing rights. Parasites are the link that enables us to explain why producers have a right to impose individualism on other people. You can't just move from the right to life without discussing the parasites who give them reason to create government: government exists because of the parasites. It doesn't exist because of the producers. It exists to enable producers to live among parasites. This is the link! The link is that the existence of parasites makes imposing individualism necessary.] +Humans must live by production. Those persons who live by non-production are parasites. Parasites don't have rights. It's the interest of productive persons to banish parasites. [*It seems we must talk about the parasites when discussing rights. Parasites are the link that enables us to explain why producers have a right to impose individualism on other people. You can't just move from the right to life without discussing the parasites who give them reason to create government: government exists because of the parasites. It doesn't exist because of the producers. It exists to enable producers to live among parasites. This is the link! The link is that the existence of parasites makes imposing individualism necessary.*] * In a sense, the urge to talk about all persons in a polity as being equally productive or non-violating is an attempt to appease people who don't like hearing violators be spoken of as having fewer rights. We have to find language that characterizes this both accurately and appeasingly. * I.e: we were prioritizing appeasement over identification. * We need a formal theory of rights-loss.