I ticked the 'kill' one, to express my disgust at such a notion.
In reality, I would just pack up my stuff and leave. It just wouldn't be my country anymore. It wouldn't be what I signed up for when I was born into this.
You want what is mine, without paying for it? In my books, that's stealing. And I don't like thieves. I am not an overly religious person, but I find my religion to always give me more than I put effort into it. It's quite an amazing energetic perpetuum mobile. It'll end once I'm down and out, which will inevitably happen, but my religion is absolutely OK. It gives me the freedom to believe in God, even though I perfectly know there is no God. It allows me to make shit up and occasionally even use foul language to express my feelings. It allows me to want to be friends with everybody, even the angry beardyman that wants to cut off my head. I think my religion is awesome.
I can look back to the early days when we were but a cult, despised and shunned and hated by our Jewish brothers and sisters. I can look back at over a thousand years of conflict with that other, younger cult that tends to crave for what isn't theirs. I can look back at Medieval times, when the surplus of sons led the church to breed Darth Vader clones and lots of bored people. I can look back at Nazi Germany, knowing that part of my people died in camps just because they remained true to their faith. OK, some ate non-kosher food. At least I think rats and worms and beetles ain't kosher. Never looked it up, as it's really not a problem of mine.
I can look back at how we were driven out, raped, beheaded, murdered and ridiculed by the Horde for centuries, without ever being allowed to regroup or catch a break. I can look at how things are turning to shit right now in, say, too many nations in Africa, the area affectively known as the 'Middle East' or even Eastern Asia, wherever someone else claims to have gotten the latest update from some imaginary deity or a less godly bearded guy like, say, Marx. I can see people claiming to fight for their people in South America, but they do it with guns, and mostly by exploiting their very own people, to produce drugs they then sell to other countries to fund their struggle, and fuck shit up from within. If you're into the cuddly fuzzy world of National Geographic, check out their 'Zombie Island' documentary. It's hilarious.
I can look at all that and still want to believe in a better tomorrow. I can look at all that and still control my disgust, my sadness and my rage. Because I know that it is in our nature to be but murderous, raging beasts.
Homo Homini Lupus. Destroying is not an art form.
And yet, those lonely folks that choose to go on a rampage are but glitches in the system. We, as a people, as a nation, are better than that. I don't condone James Yeager's words uttered and thoughts behind them, but I can allow myself to understand how threatened he must have felt that moment he considered it to be a good idea to have that moment put up on teh interwebz for all eternity. I don't know him personally and I don't think he's a very smart man. But there are plenty other folks around us, wherever we are, that think and act and look like James Yeager, they just don't all subscribe to they same cause. Tick off the majority of them, and it's not just Al-Qaeda sleeper cells or lonely assburgers on a rampage. It really would mean civil war. And I wouldn't like that very much, now, would I.
So, why should I pay taxes to a bureaucracy that, well, does not respect me and treads on me?
Why not just turn my back on them and ridicule them from afar?
Let them build their socialist Utopia and - inevitably - fail, like everyone before them. I really want no part in this.
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