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in all fairness as a budding 20 year old in canada i never really had much of a choice, as an individual.
you see, my parents immigrated to canada and i grew up here and through years of saturation and assimilation i became accustomed to this system of living.
however, if as an individual you were to give me a choice- to live in a society with a truly free market and a society like the one set up here in canada, i would tell you id rather live in a free market society. no matter how much i vote for whatever party which i believe would be best in facilitating this kind of change, i will never really get it. so i come to the conclusion that it just wasnt meant to be, here- i come to the conclusion that voting simply legitimatizes a system of government which i dont approve of.
you would be correct in saying that you're sick and tired of hearing people say 'some forms of taxation are akin to theft'- only if those people truly and clearly consented to taxation. but have we? for people who have arrived at the conclusion that the current state of affairs for voting and representation are so dubiously flawed that we don't believe in it and even stop voting entirely- taxes *really are* arbitrarily collected.
and your right in your implication that it's akin to whining, some people really just say these things because they can't do anything but bitch and grope about how bad the state of affairs are. for some people.
for others it's really more like a struggle to clear up misunderstandings and inform people who would not have been aware of what our views are towards this. the hope is that once the misunderstandings are cleared away, we could both come to the same conclusions and then work together towards building a better system.
by the way- even if i didnt vote for my government, that means that the elected politicians represent ME? come on, that is seriously flawed. i never voted, by they represent me? by what, force? because that's what it amounts to: "either vote for someone (in a flawed system, who wont win or achieve our objectives anyways,) and don't complain, or abstain and don't complain anyways."
right? fuck it. id rather hear people bitch and whine than shut their mouths because of some cleverly designed scam.