The love of the French State for its cattle.
Their salary comes out of your pocket and on top of that they beat you.
Try whenever you can to avoid paying taxes and use #Bitcoin.
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The French, like all Europeans but probably more than anybody else, are junkies of the State. They want MORE of it, and MORE, and MORE.
They're just having a little bit of a hangover at the moment, some collateral damage from the drug they love. But they're still junkies and they can never stop using.
It is sad but I totally agree with your argument.
If there is no educational change in some generation this will continue to perpetuate.
It is what it is a no change is possible, the State is a religion in Europe. I opt out the best I can by doing exactly what you said.
The Scandinavians are the real state junkies. So much so that there is no rioting like this, ever—even when the state passes very unpopular laws or regulations. The French people are passionate freedom lovers in comparison
Let's settle the question like this;
The Scandinavians are the banking executive who enjoys and can afford the purest cleanest Afghan heroin and inject themselves on their plushy penthouse overlooking the fjord, supervised by their private doctor.
The French are a 12 year old street kid who started sniffing glue from a plastic bag and now rob the old ladies in their hood to try to score some of the vilest shit nobody else dares shoot.
Also, note that the "unpopular laws" that the French protest always have to do with reducing the role of the State in people's lives or reducing the amount of "free stuff" they get from it. So, the oposite of freedom-loving. It's withdrawal syndrome.
I agree with you #[1] but we are all so different that without any central authority the masses will start to build their own camps. There will be miniature wars all around each trying to rule other camps and do we really want such chaos?
There is 8 billion plebs out there and believe me, nothing good can happen if you release them from the leashes.
People in all our history haven't been able to sustain living in peace for longer periods of times.
Homo Sapiens is a flawed nature's experiment.
Maybe we could had a chance to live in peace if Homo Sapiens has been beaten by neanderthals a few times and learn from them that we are not above every living thing on this planet after all.
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I am aware of what you say, but I believe that there are alternative methods of organization to having a big state that controls everything. In fact statism as we know it is relatively recent.
During the middle ages for example and throughout history there have been city states, which I like to call tribute cities. These cities had their own army, laws and government. If you liked that city you could live in it and pay the corresponding tribute, if you didn't like it you could move to another one or live alone in the mountains without paying anyone.
You had options despite all the technical limitations of the time, now you have no options.
Statism is the cancer of today's society.
Exactly. States do violent and immoral things. Supporting them with my taxes would mean I myself do support those things. Therefore not paying taxes is the best way how to dismiss violence out of my life.