Considering you are an anarchist yourself (at least going by your views) I don’t see the problem.
You can. Nobody’s stopping you from hitchhiking around the country or buying an RV to roam around.
Have you not considered that most people (including nomads) actually prefer our way of “consumerist” life? And the superiority of this lifestyle is borne out by statistics on life-span, infant mortality, and so forth.
What do you want to do that society says you can’t? Be a nomad who answers only to himself? Sorry, thousands of years of cultural experiments have shown lawlessness will bite you in the ass. AFAIK, movement unless you disrespect the rights of others (land ownership and whatnot).
It is a curios thing that none of this seems to happen in the UK. That may be because the State here is represented by the Sovereign. For example, if you are prosecuted, the case will be You vs Her Majesty The Queen, not You vs some amorphous State body.
Taxes are collected by Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, so failure to pay would result in prosecution by Her Maj.
If the government isn’t supposed to claim authority over a single person, how is it ever going to get authority over universal human rights?
You can. Fundamentally all questions of authority boil down to might. If you claim land and can successfully defend it against attackers, well, it’s yours. Every institution was created by people.
You know how you didn’t get to choose where you were born? You also didn’t get to choose when you were born, so you just got dumped into a world full of other people. Sorry.
There are 7 billion people in the world. They’re probably not going away, and most of them want to live in a world with other people around them, so there’s just going to be society nearly everywhere.
That’s true in Canada as well, but they have sovereign citizen types there. I even came across a website once that claimed that Victoria was the last legitimate sovereign of Canada.
A law I could vote to repeal. What harm? If everyone (alive) consents, and I’ve given my prior consent in my will…why not? It’s icky, but so what? Lots of legal things are icky.
Say the body is cremated, and I put a pinch of the ashes on top of my sandwich, every day for some years. Objectively speaking, is there really a difference?
And BTW, there’s nothing exclusively “Western World” about having to submit to society’s rules as to what can you do where and when, and about what you and the society owe one another. Humans are social creatures, and every civilization has mores and laws that constrain your untramelled action; even nomadic cultures do.
Not that I believe this assertion of yours for even a minute, but, what the hey, here’s my question: You wouldn’t happen to have a reputable cite for that assertion, would you?
I wonder where most of you guys live (probably Merrica), since here you can’t do a lot of the stuff he wants.
Here I wouldn’t be able to even drive around the country in a RV and live in it, at night I’d have to sleep in a house or park it on a designated parking lot (which I’ve seen only once) and pay big money for a night.
That is rather a shame. Cross-country vacations in an RV, parking overnight on lonely dirt roads, is…well, kinda fun.
It does require honesty and integrity, not to empty the waste tanks into drainage ditches, etc. Some people spoil it for everyone else by acting irresponsibly.
Germany (which I’ll assume from the “Leipzig”) doesn’t have campgrounds or rest stops where one could park an RV overnight? I’d guess that might be the result of a far smaller territory with less of a concept of “wide open spaces” and such.
Well, there you go. We North American types would find Germany to be awfully claustrophobic. Heck, I live in a province that’s about the size of Western Europe combined. I could get in an RV (if I had one) and drive on one freeway for ten hours and still be in my province. What’s a ten-hour drive in Europe involve? Crossing four national borders?
And, yes, I could find lots of places to park, because there’s just so much place here.
I suppose people who live in countries as big as America have an entirely different perception of concepts such as freedom of movement, due to the size of their country. Also, in most European countries it’s illegal to camp on a rest stop or on the side of the road, and campgrounds are often expensive.
I don’t know about North America, but here, if you decide to drive around and live on campgrounds, you still need a house (that’s not on wheels) and live there a certain amount of months per year.
My sister and brother-in-law spent over a year just traveling around the country in their RV. They had sold their house just before this and put some things into a storage unit. They dropped their son off at college on the first part of the trip. I asked them what they did when he came home for Christmas. Did they tell him, “Hitchhike out into the desert. We’ll meet you at the third cactus past the ghost town”?