Nothing against the off grid lifestyle if done intelligently but having 11 kids on a dilapidated farm without providing for their education when neither parent can hold down a job and eschewing modern society unless it decides to give them free money for their “defense” or buy their cruddy crafts or they want to steal water from them I have to say is pretty much the opposite of personal responsibility in my book.
Plenty of people here where I live sell crafts in tourist traps I’ve been known to do it myself in the tourist season-do you have a problem with people selling whatever the tourists will buy? And pretty much everyone works for themselves as contract labor, rather than for a corporation-there is plenty of skilled labor in construction, ranching and other trades to be found. More kids of both genders join the military than go to college after graduation, too, unlike city kids.
I believe I said the guy should be smacked for stealing water, and made to buy it like anyone else would. And I don’t have a problem with anyone contributing to their legal defense if they want to-they have just as much right to legal counsel as anyone else does.