Proves what? You didn't answer a single question I asked. I ask you why you think I'm put on this earth to serve you and your family and your response is that I'm selfish?! I got an idea, why don't you serve my family instead. Hell, my family is pretty big, so I'm sure we'll be able to put together more votes than your family if you think that majority rule is sufficient sanction to enslave others. Explain to me at what point the disconnect happens for you. Is it stealing if two brutes meet you on a dark alley and 'vote' to help themselves to your earnings? Is it stealing if the whole block votes to help themselves to your earnings? Or will you just blank this out and claim I'm 'selfish' because I decide spend my time creating wealth for the enjoyment of myself and my family instead of spending my time creating wealth for the enjoyment of you and your family.
It is all about you isn't it?
My life? Yes, my life is about me. My life is the sum of my actions in a certain period of time stretching from my birth to my death. I exchange, to the best of my ability and the extent of my willingness, that period of time which I'm free to use for labor. That labor is exchanged for money. You seem to think you're entitled to portion of that money, in essence entitled to a portion of my life. Why? What makes you think that in a free society every man is intended to be made the slave of every other man?
Well you live in this society and have responsibilities to it too.
I am responsible for my actions, I am not responsible for yours. It is my responsibility to respect your right to life, liberty and property, and we have instituted a government to defend these liberties for everyone. You want to toss liberty aside and stick your hand in my pocket, using the force we've organized for the defense of our rights. You know if you came slinking around my house at night you'd be shot as a thief, but if you just cast the right votes in daylight then stealing is ok in your mind. How abhorrent! How do you do it? "Everyone's doing it! You're selfish! I deserve to reap what others sow!" Are those your battlecries?
We don't exist in a vacuum.
Which is why we have law. Left in a vacuum I wouldn't have to worry about you stealing from me. Because some would steal more boldly than you we've organized force for our collective defense. You're complicit in the hijacking of this force to use for the exact opposite reason it was created. We have government in this country to secure unto each person his life, liberty and property. Why do you think that power should instead be used to plunder some citizens for the benefit of others? By what right?
And stop quoting people from the past who are apparently doing your thinking for you, and start thinking for yourself. It comes across as a ploy to puff up your own self importance.
Weak. You can't explain why you feel entitled to plunder your neighbors, so you harangue me for citing Thomas Jefferson's opinion on the policy you support? Why didn't you just post the quote from Marx that buttresses your argument, you know, "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need."