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Culture War Roundup for the week of September 26, 2022

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Why should then the family system apply to families? Mothers only taking of their children, if someone pays them to. Likewise, children abandoning their parents in old age feeling no loyalty towards them or siblings treating eachother purely as fellow market participants.

If market is the provides superior outcomes, merely abolition of nation is insufficient to achieve the greatest good for the greatest number, any non-market system must end.

Because you are already in a transactional relationship with a modern state where you pay taxes. You pay taxes for legal system/infrastructure/protection/etc.

If the country wants something more from you, your loyalty, then they should give something equivalent to that in return, which they are incapable of giving. Unlike in a family where children are capable of returning what their parents gave them.

I genuinely can't think a country ever returning that favor minus maybe hostage situations in a foreign land where the hostages went voluntarily.

which they are incapable of giving. Unlike in a family where children are capable of returning what their parents gave them.

Even a cursory examination of the world outside our windows proves proves this statement false. Outside some absurd scenario such as a child sacrificing their lives to save both of their parents, no, the child is not capable of returning what their parents gave them because what they gave them was life itself.

You say the state is incapable of loyalty, and while in some abstract sense you might be right, every day we see agents of the state, soldiers, cops, firefighters, EMS, Et Al risking their necks for people they don't know. How do you reconcile this? Do you dismiss such people as "suckers", or you honestly believe think your tax dollars are worth the risk that a father of 3 might not live to see his kids graduate, get married, etc...? Do you believe that your tax dollars are worth more than somebody else's husband, wife, son, or daughter? I don't see how you couldn't given your previous statements. If on the other hand you don't would you allow that to stop you from calling 911 if your building was on fire?