No - my explanation should have made it clear I'm not talking about social policies, but economic ones. When you tax a person's money away from them, you are taking away their economic liberty.

Economically and to me, morally, capitalism is simply superior to socialism. Let me explain why I think capitalism is better, from a moral perspective. I have a number of personal values - smoking is bad, cheating is bad, et cetera. These are all things I will go through my life without doing and I would prefer if other people didn't either. Do I think there should be laws against this? Unless there is direct damage done or contractual violations, no, I don't think there should be. Unless a third party is unduly harmed, it is my belief that a person should exercise his/her set of morals and preferences and do whatever he/she likes with his/her resources and self.

This does NOT say EVEN ONE THING about taxing "a person's money away". It says NOTHING about "sin taxes" or any other kind of tax.

What it VERY CLEARLY does say is that a person's non-harmful moral choices and preferences should not be made illegal, that these are personal matters, not public.

Taxing something does not make it illegal and it does not deny one the 'right' to choose to allocate one's resources to it.

Your statement clearly speaks of social policy as it relates to lawful/unlawful behaviour, not taxation, and this has nothing to do with capitalism vs. socialism.

as a nation, that everything revolves around capitalism and greed.

It's all a big, black box to you, isn't it?

I pay capital-gains tax and sometimes inheritance and income-tax. That money goes to pay for something. On the other side of the coin, "clean needle injection" sites, welfare for individuals and other sorts of social programs are paid for using public funding. Public funding is tax $.

Do you not understand how this translates to my resources being taken from me to support causes I don't support, leaving me with less resources to support things I want to support?

Economically and to me, morally, capitalism is simply superior to socialism. Let me explain why I think capitalism is better, from a moral perspective. I have a number of personal values - smoking is bad, cheating is bad, et cetera. These are all things I will go through my life without doing and I would prefer if other people didn't either. Do I think there should be laws against this? Unless there is direct damage done or contractual violations, no, I don't think there should be. Unless a third party is unduly harmed, it is my belief that a person should exercise his/her set of morals and preferences and do whatever he/she likes with his/her resources and self.

Again... There is NOT ONE mention of taxes or taxation in this... NOT ONE!

You discuss whether or not such things should be ILLEGAL... and THAT'S IT... Nothing about taxes or taxation.

Since you seem hell-bent on "words meaning just exactly what you choose them to mean" then please SHOW us where that quote speaks of ANYTHING other than legality/illegality.

Please... Show us... because I'm just 'dieing' to find out how any of that means something other than what the words actually say.

I don't make the distinction between legal and economic liberty. I didn't think I had to - so while it may not be immediately obvious, it's there. I really don't know what you thought I meant by resources if you didn't think I meant wealth/assets. It goes without saying that the most common way this happens is taxation. What else could I have meant contextually?

Let me explain why I think capitalism is better, from a moral perspective. I have a number of personal values - smoking is bad, cheating is bad, et cetera. These are all things I will go through my life without doing and I would prefer if other people didn't either. Do I think there should be laws against this? Unless there is direct damage done or contractual violations, no, I don't think there should be. Unless a third party is unduly harmed, it is my belief that a person should exercise his/her set of morals and preferences and do whatever he/she likes with his/her resources and self..

"it is my belief that a person should exercise his/her set of morals and preferences and do whatever he/she likes with his/her resources and self."

Contextually (that is within the context of the ORIGINAL statement, not simply the fragment you chose to restate) that sentence, by ALL applicable rules of English grammer and construction, means it should not be ILLEGAL to "do whatever he/she likes with his/her resources and self". It DOES NOT say squat about being taxed or having those taxes disbursed in a manner you don't approve of.

Try as you might, words will not mean "just exactly what you choose them to mean, nothing more, nothing less", they mean what they mean and within the context you stated them they DO NOT mean what you are asserting they mean.

Spending policies and social programs (or the creation of an autonomous body to handle such things) are passed through (or rejected) as laws.

Even ignoring that, what do you think I meant by a person having control over his/her resources?

Economically and to me, morally, capitalism is simply superior to socialism. Let me explain why I think capitalism is better, from a moral perspective. I have a number of personal values - smoking is bad, cheating is bad, et cetera. These are all things I will go through my life without doing and I would prefer if other people didn't either. Do I think there should be laws against this? Unless there is direct damage done or contractual violations, no, I don't think there should be. Unless a third party is unduly harmed, it is my belief that a person should exercise his/her set of morals and preferences and do whatever he/she likes with his/her resources and self.