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This Is Going To Sound Really Funny... Is This Overboard?

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strat2131 Posted: Tue, Feb 12 2008 6:12 AM

Ohkay so basically i am an Anarcho-Capitalist i want to know if this is crossing the Civil Disobediance line.

 

I have discovered a way to get free parking at Parking stations and parking meters (true story):

-Should i be able to give myself free parking in the name of civil disobediance.

-Should i be able to give others (every1 on the street free parking) in the name of civil disobediance.

-Should i be able to make profit out of giving others free parking on the street (obviusly i dont plan on doing this, i wouldnt advertise it here if i was)

 

Also i have been Jumping train barriers, not paying the correct fare (the Rail corporation is not private) Is this pushing it? (i personally dont think s0o, buh would like to see if im jst going abit to hektik) 

I have the option (as a student), to get a rail pass for free, should i refuse the rail pass and continue jumping the train, or should i use the pass (validating the system), considering its costing me nothing, and nobody else. (i would jump it anyway) 

 

 

Any comments plz, no i will not tell u how 2 get free parking, plus i doubt it would work in anycountry except the one im in, its really quite simple.

Also i know i have used alot of spelling and grammatical errors, i really do not care, plz dont be offended.

Plz forgive me if i have made any errors, in my wording.

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ayrnieu replied on Thu, Feb 14 2008 9:20 AM
strat2131:
or should i use the pass[...], considering its costing me nothing, and nobody else.
A gift from a noncriminal person is simply a gift. A gift from a state should be treated with suspicion, as a product of force or fraud. Your rail may be so extravagantly wasteful and so unused that 'free' tickets are insignificant, but it's likely that money will for bureaucratic purposes still be transferred to support your ticket, and that this demand for money can be traced back to taxation.
strat2131:
I have discovered a way to get free parking at Parking stations and parking meters
These parking stations and parking meters are state-owned, and probably very poorly managed, but parking is not a superabundant good, and you do ultimately occupy a space that some honest person would have been willing to pay for. Your fraud only adds to the hampered market's difficulty in allocating goods to their highest-valued use. And I do not know how you can call this 'civil disobedience': when get 'free parking', do you advertise that you've done this? Do you hope to have your car impounded, and you arrested, so that you can attack the system of public roads before a judge?
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strat2131 replied on Thu, Feb 14 2008 10:38 PM

 But the people who parked at the parking station werent intending to get free parking, they probably (almost definetely) had the expectation to pay, however wen they went to the parking station , they would see its already been payed....

 Most of the time there is a fixed time limit, (u have to repay every 20 minutes on the sides of roads in the city). so there wouldnt be any problem with people using resources inefficiently, it would only mean that the state wont get there expected revenue

I dont own a car, so no chance of it getting impounded. i jst think its funny to watch the state lose 20 $ (which i dont think it obtained legitematly, the state cant own property) at the swipe of a card. and thus leaving money in the hands of private individuals?

 

Is there something extremely wrong in my train of thought?

 

(i understand i shouldnt use it on my self, or for anybody who is epecting me 2 pay for there parking, that could create inefficiency) 

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