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by meanduck 3426 days ago
If something is being done against someone's will ==> Basic Human Right is being violated.

Thus Taxation by the definition, is a human right violation for many.

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So your opinion is that every major nation in the world, by having mandatory taxes, is violating basic human rights.

It's exactly statements like this which dilute and devalue the power of terms like "human rights."

If you are a hardcore libertarian, and want to claim that every major nation violates libertarian principles, more power to you. But don't appropriate the term "basic human rights" towards a political ideology that it was never meant to represent.

"Dont do somthing that you dont want to be done to yourself." is probably the reason that give birth to every basic human right.

So yes its absolutely appropriate. You dont have to be even a libertarian to realize that.