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I don't get it... is someone forcing you to drive on public roads? Was your driving examiner holding a gun to your head while you parallel parked? Does a State Trooper come to your door every two years and march you down to the DMV to renew under protest?

You have the same right to the roads as anyone else. You pass the test, you follow the rules, you're free to drive. Not wanting to follow the rules doesn't exempt you from them. Ever. I mean in what part of your life is that how it works?

(And pretending you don't benefit from public roads because you don't drive on them is crazy too. Where does your food come from? Your mail? Leave aside the craziness of the idea that you shouldn't have to pay taxes for things which don't directly affect you, which completely misses the point of taxation... An issue for another time, perhaps.)



"I don't get it... "

Sorry, I don't have time to put in the requisite political theory, but in short, what gives the "public" the right to claim the entire continent, or indeed if you look at the issue correctly, THE ENTIRE PLANET unto their driving rules?

Follow the rabbit hole Alice.


>what gives the "public" the right

The public paid for the roads.


You need to study some actual political theory, not pop culture mythology.


Wow. Okay, well, uh... don't let me take up any more of your valuable time, then. Good talking to you.


If you are genuinely curious then read some political theory. Such as John Locke's second treatise on government, and "For Individual Rights" (see Amazon).


I went to college, thanks. If you sincerely believe that government shouldn't have the ability to own or regulate the use of public lands, we're unlikely to have a productive conversation.


Colleges do not teach political theories contrary to the current mythology of our age, on the contrary, they pimp the theories favorable to the government they exist under.


Indeed? Where did you go to school?


How exactly is where I went to school relevant? Where did you go to school? Did they teach logic?




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