unambiguously wrong

I had this post up before, but I got scared.   I suggest in it that statists of every stripe have something akin to battered wife syndrome, and I compare their politics to rape apology.  I took it down intending to make it more palatable.  I've since found my courage.  Let me state 3 things unequivocally:

1. I firmly agree with everything I say here and all of it's implications,
2. I'm really pissed off that blogger thinks "statist" isn't a word, and BTW
3. if you support the imprisonment of nonviolent offenders then you are literally a rape apologist.

Theft is wrong.  Unambiguously wrong.  There are no exceptions.  There is no gray area.  Neither your ignorance nor your desperation absolve you of the responsibility to compensate the people you violate.  This shouldn't be in question.  But on the rare occasions when someone admits to me that taxation is theft, they always immediately qualify their agreement.  "Yes, it is theft, but we have to have it, because...the roads, the police, the military, parents are stupid, children are stupid, capitalists are evil, yada yada yada." The conversation keeps devolving into mad max scenarios where everyone who doesn't die of starvation gets hunted down by cannibals.  Rather than constantly trying to explain the comprehensively self reinforcing positive feedback loop of an organic free society, let me just try to make it clear how much of a battered wife you sound like.  Imagine if governments raped people instead of stealing from them.

Liberals:
 
Yes, the national genetic management service is just rape, but we have to force people to breed so that we can eliminate the differences that lead to inequality.  A free market for breeding partners will always exploit the less attractive.  Beautiful people inherited their beauty from their parents.  They didn't earn it.  It's not fair to the rest of us.  They should stop being so greedy and start contributing their fair share to the gene pool.

Conservatives:

Yes, the national genetic management service is just rape, but we have to force people to breed so we can eliminate the genetic markers that lead to criminal behavior.  If we left people to choose their own mates, they would continue to produce children with genetic predispositions to violate other people's rights.  It would be irresponsible of us to let that happen.  If you don't want the benefits of the law abiding society that the national genetic management service has worked so hard to give you then you can just leave.

Libertarians:

The constitution clearly says that the government is only allowed to rape just enough people to maintain sufficient breeding stock for police officers, soldiers, and judges.  A free market for breeding partners can't produce the genetically superior super humans we need to protect and defend us and settle our disputes.  That is the only legitimate function of government and the only legitimate use of rape.

Theft isn't OK.  EVER.  And for the same reason that rape isn't OK.  EVER.  Stop apologizing for your abusers.