• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The origin of “outlaw” didn’t mean someone was a bandit.

    It meant they had broken the social contract, and as such were no longer protected under any laws

    An outlaw didn’t avoid civilization because they’d be arrested, it was because everyone else could steal from them or even kill them, and face zero consequences for it.

    They didn’t abide by the social contract, so others didn’t have to either

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      1 year ago

      Yea, all it took was not paying your taxes.

      Don’t pay your share, no protection of the law, seems pretty simple.

      I wish it were an option nowadays, honestly. I’d make that bet in a heartbeat. Statistically id be so much safer I could make a case for my life insurance rates to drop. Statistically I am at my highest chance of death in the presence of a police officer, whether they’re in the area because of me or not, so even as a bystander. If I could cut that cord, it’s a no brainer. Also my car is getting 20 extra batteries dropped in it wired up in series for parking and pumping 240vdc to every metal part of the chassis. And my property will have a dozen armed sentry’s that will fire on anything that moves unless you got the optics for it to sense friendly, which I’ll just have implanted inconspicuously into a tattoo.