[ExI] Human Fetal Tissue Research

[Anton Sherwood]

On 2020-9-15 08:40, spike jones via extropy-chat wrote:
> Where we don’t want to go is having a lot of taxpayers recognize that 
> their money is going to support something they consider morally abhorrent.

In my youth I would try to sketch the constitution of an ideal republic, 
but could not get around the point that anything the state does is 
likely to be repugnant to some minority of taxpayers; and it's cruel to 
make them participate.  I could not square the wrongness of military 
conscription (I remembered when that was a thing, though I would never 
have said so then!) with the rightness of taxation.

It was therefore a great relief to me to be persuaded that the state is 
not necessary.

One often hears that "libertarians are selfish jerks who just want to 
smoke pot and not pay tax."  Perhaps.  This jerk became a libertarian 
because, out of compassion for people who disagree with me, I did not 
want to *collect* tax.

Some call that being too weak to accept the distasteful necessities.

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