(July 9, 2013 at 12:09 pm)Koolay Wrote: Using threats of violence is still using violence.
I said the threat of force, which can include violence but is not limited to that. The government will likely only use violence if you initiate it when they move to enforce their laws. There are any number of other ways to collect taxes owed that do not require the government to use violence.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
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