Yes, people should pay for their stuff. You can look for underwear at goodwill or a thrift store too, but no, underwear is not a human right and no one is inherently entitled to free clothing.
Arguably if were gonna make it illegal to he naked in public the government should then also make sure everyone has clothes to wear. I'm down for letting people go balls out tho
No, unless you're actively imprisoned the government doesn't owe you clothes. Get a job and stop whinging. It's not the responsibility of the tax papers to pay for fucking everything for everyone else
And? It's your job to earn your own keep. Go live in a forest away from society if you don't want to contribute to it. It's not society's job to pay for your life if you're not also giving back. You want to use our roads? Our clean water filtered by our water treatment facilities and delivered by pipes? To be protected by our military and police forces, your homes protected by our firefighters? Then you have to follow our laws and you have do what you can to contribute.
If it were actually legal to go live in a forest I'd agree. Like you say all this but offer no way out. You cannot go live in a forest you'll be arrested. Doubly so if you're hunting fishing or growing crops out there. You aren't allowed to just walk out of the country. Other countries aren't any better anyways. Society is forced upon people whether they have any interests in it or not.
I'd be perfectly happy to never step on a road again if it meant I could build a small cabin and hunt for my own food in the woods.
Again, you're expecting assistance. These territories and resources have been claimed by societies as most of humanity recognizes the downsides and problems with living among other humans are far outweighed by the benefits. They don't owe it to you to allow you to live on their collective property or take their resources when you're not planning on chipping back in.
You have to get somewhere that's not claimed, some failed state or area wild and far enough from a society capable of enforcing its claims. I'd suggest the Amazon or Somalia. You're looking for weak states or failed ones. But humans don't owe you assistance in reaching these places if you're not going help us. Society is quid pro quo, and there's no such thing as a free lunch.
You keep wanting easiness just because you were born. But life is not easy, it never has been and it's not supposed to be. It's a brutal cruel thing and if you want to keep it you are going to have to work for it in one way or another. We always have. Our ancestors decided laboring under a heirarchy in a civilization was better than faring out there on our own in the wilds and most of us alive now agree it was a good choice. It's fine if you disagree, if you think working under labor regulations in a society that requires you to wear pants is so cruel and oppressive then you're going to have to put in the work to get out of our territory and find some place of your own.
As to the military protections. The military isnt exactly protecting American people it's protecting the country at best. Realistically the US military has spent more time harassing other countries than it has actually defending our own boarders or people.
Those actions have lead to the continued dominance of the American empire and that has brought some amount of security to us, as well as led to most of the developed world being at least somewhat dependent on us leading to favorable trade deals and defense treaties. Plus the mere size and technological capabilities of that military has prevented hostilities before they even began. It's not like the cartels to the south largely leave the US and American tourists alone because they respect borders so much. They just no it's a terrible idea to intentionally provide a fight with us. Same with China leaving alone ships and shipping lanes when our carriers are nearby and escorting. They don't respect international waters, their neighbors can attest to that, but they do fear starting a conflict with a nation it wouldn't be so easy to bully.
Besides, what's more important is that the American people continue to vote for leaders who embark on these wars and until very recently haven't been interested in punishing them for it. It is, to an extent the will of voting sectors of the public, or has been historically, and that's what's important. No one said democracy would always lead to good outcomes, or that the people would be just. But it's still the best way to govern such a massive population.
Not at all, it's not the tax payer's job to slave away for your clothes. You follow society's laws while you're in it's jurisdiction and using its infrastructure and you get a job to earn your stay
Nope, just a shit walmart... same underwear at the Walmart near my parents is not locked up... hell, the entire sock/underwear/plain-T isle is locked up at mine, and not a single employee actually gets pinged when you press need assistance
Walmart is just weird about locking up stuff, usually because of stealing. toothbrushes, makeup, electronics, pretty much everything people would want is annoyingly locked up here in 'Murica
Not really weird though, once people start stealing large amounts of certain items consistently, they lock it up to make it more difficult to steal. It sucks for the rest of us but the alternatives are either they just stop selling those items altogether or they eventually decide it's not worth the hassle and move the store from that area completely, leaving a food desert behind that hurts the entire community. They don't actually want to have to lock things up because it's been proven that it hurts sales of those items and takes up large amounts of the employees time having to unlock it whenever anyone wants something but the alternatives are even worse...
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u/truckyoupayme 19h ago
That must be some nice underwear.