Dabooda

“creating a huge gang - one far too big and powerful for the average person to resist  - and giving that gang societal permission to control and extort everyone else (by way of “law” and “taxes”), in the hope that that gang will prevent theft and thuggery , is an absurd idea that I “bought into” for the first 35 years of my life.”
― Shepard Thevoluntaryist, Anarchy Exposed: A former police officer reports on his investigative journey into anarchism.

“Unlike what I accepted as a child and rookie police officer, it turns out that government, rather than serving as a check against the imperfections of our nature, instead drastically amplifies our greed, resentment, irresponsibility and malice, by giving us a “legal,” personally risk-free way to forcibly interfere with the lives and choices of our fellow man. In short, politics brings out the bully and meddling busy-body in everyone, it encourages and amplifies division.”
― Shepard Thevoluntaryist, Anarchy Exposed: A former police officer reports on his investigative journey into anarchism.

“Bizarrely, almost every statist admits that politicians are more dishonest, corrupt, conniving and selfish than most people, but still insists that civilization can exist only if those particularly untrustworthy people are given both the power and the right to forcibly control everyone else. Believers in "government" truly believe that the only thing that can keep them safe from the flaws of human nature is taking some of those flawed humans—some of the most flawed, in fact—and appointing them as gods, with the right to dominate all of mankind, in the absurd hope that, if given such tremendous power, such people will use it only for good. And the fact that that has never happened in the history of the world does not stop statists from insisting that it "needs" to happen to ensure peaceful civilization.”
― Larken Rose, The Most Dangerous Superstition

“I nvolvement in politics encourages us to use the force and violence of the state to steal from and control other people, without any risk and without feeling guilt that we would feel if we did the bullying ourselves.”
― Shepard Thevoluntaryist, Anarchy Exposed: A former police officer reports on his investigative journey into anarchism.