> Eh? Violence? For refusing mandatory upkeep around your home and neighborhood? Are you writing this from North Korea or something? How is fining you such a foreign concept where you live that your government has to resort to violence to get you to do some upkeep as a homeowner?
What happens when you don't pay the fine? What happens when you resist the armed men at your door?
> outright insulting to human dignity to suggest that these are comparable to slavery
What's outright insulting to human dignity is authoritarians justifying slavery on the basis of "other forms are worse".
Garnish your wages? Freeze your bank account? Put a lien on your house? I don't know, I've never been blessed with the urge to die on this hill. They sure as heck have a million options besides injuring you, and they won't injure you unless you do something other than merely refusing labor or payment. "He didn't pay the fine, let's go beat him up till he does" is not how things work in my part of the world.
Ah yes, our wonderful governments won't beat us up if we don't comply, they'll just take our possessions and money so we don't have food, shelter, transportation, or the capacity to generate income. Totally non-violent.
"political power flows from the barrel of a gun" - Mao
What happens when you don't pay the fine? What happens when you resist the armed men at your door?
> outright insulting to human dignity to suggest that these are comparable to slavery
What's outright insulting to human dignity is authoritarians justifying slavery on the basis of "other forms are worse".