My younger sister didn't go to school for a while and then was threatened to have a probation officer visit every morning so she started going. I don't know if they were threatening force, but obviously I wouldn't put that past the government.
There's nothing wrong with wanting to get "free" goodies whose costs have been outsourced to others. The problem comes when people act on those wants and choose to get on food stamps, especially when the people have other alternatives.
To me Islam is no more or less offensive to science than Christianity. Since no god has been shown to exist, people just project their own feelings onto a god character. Like that reverend all over the news who said he'd pray about his decision to burn the Qur'an.... he's obviously going to...
An action that isn't wrong legally or morally isn't necessarily moral and legal. There is the idea of moral permissibility, which is that it's not moral or immoral, but left up to personal ideas and preferences. An example of this would be choosing not to sell to someone who wants to buy...
The neighbor should define too many.... and explain how he got to that conclusion. Is it a magical number? Is it based on function? Chances are he wouldn't have a good answer.
In all fairness, you never specified that.
Who is "ourselves"? If by that you mean people in a certain geographic area that are forced to pay taxes to a government that made up those borders, then it's never self-defense. The government is made up of people. Countries are made up of people...
If you choose to be an informant, you just entered into the conflict whether you intended to or not. Now I'm aware that people have been tortured to the point where they'd name anyone just to prevent their own suffering, but once again that's not Wikileak's fault. No matter how you look at the...
Tell me, did you ever sign a contract agreeing to be the citizen in a citizen/government relationship? Did you ever sign away your rights to the government? Are contracts that were never signed by one contractual party valid?
Government uses these so called "social contracts" to violate...