From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhtsa!alice!npoiv!npois!houxm!houxz!hogpc!houti!trc
Newsgroups: net.politics
Title: You can keep your common guilt...
Article-I.D.: houti.240
Posted: Fri Apr  1 08:08:26 1983
Received: Sat Apr  2 04:54:45 1983


Nuclear weapons are just that - weapons.  Creating such weapons is not 
a conspiracy to wantonly destroy cities and civilians, at least no more
than creating large supplies of conventional weapons.  And conspiracies, 
by definition, must be kept secret, not widely published as our Nuclear 
capability is.

Contributing money is only complicity when the thing contributed to
is wrong.

Taxes are NOT voluntary (try not paying yours if you dont believe me!) and
so are not contributions.  And the fact that we are a democracy does not
imply that I am willing to be taxed.  Many times citizens have opposed 
taxation, and governments have imposed taxes anyway, "for the good of the
citizens".

So much for common guilt.  If you are for supporting nuclear weapons,
and willingly pay taxes for that purpose, you are not supporting a
conspiracy.  If you oppose paying taxes but do it under duress, you
are not contributing willfully, and so would not be guilty anyway.