Coercion

The State Is Not Great (3rd Draft)

by Jacob Spinney on December 23, 2010 · View Comments

Statism is a Religion

This is the script for a future video that I think will be one of my most important works. So I would very much appreciate any feedback. Thanks.

The State Is Not Great: How Government Poisons Everything

By Jacob Spinney

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence – it is force. The thing that differentiates the government from any other group of people is that it is a territorial monopoly with the commonly believed right to use coercion. It’s time we stop fooling ourselves into believing that the government is the entity which allows us to achieve collective goals and start recognizing it for what it really is, the entity that enables one group of people to violently aggress against another; that allows one individual to benefit at the expense of another. Taxation, that is to say coercively taking people’s property against their will, and regulation, that is… Read More

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