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Why is coercion the chosen course and not voluntarism?

I actually like your reply the most. You almost proudly admit to being in favor of violence against your fellow man but didn't quite get there. I'll help finish your thought:

> then society is free to take its fair share in return. And if you don't give up what society thinks is fair, then society will imprison you and if you resist their agents, society will authorize them to kill you.

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You are again free to leave. It's a relatively simple social contract. If you take something from society, you'll have to pay for it.

If I go into a walmart and take products off the shelf, Walmart also expects that I'll pay, and will enforce that under threat of violence.

I'd gladly switch to a voluntarism based society, but it turns out the vast majority that claims to support voluntarism just wants to take advantage of society without paying for it.

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