you are free to leave your country or to go live in nature, but if you want the shared benefits of a modern society, then you have to contribute in the form of taxes to upkeep this society.

The IRS is definitely overstepping its bounds. I hope it gets massively downscaled and its role diminished, as it has already been abused by sitting presidents to stifle free speech (Obama and right-wing groups in 2013)

Taxation is not theft for the same reason sex is not always rape, there is consent.

It's not a gun or no gun thing, it's entirely dependent on culture. In most traditional western style european and european descendant countries, crime as a whole is low amongst those ethnic groups. The problem is either rooted in poverty or in increased crime by minorities.

See: Switzerland, Idaho, Wyoming for proper examples of nearly all-european regions with gun freedom and Chicago, LA, and Nigeria for non-european regions with restricted gun control. 

for me it's an investment much like any other crypto

except for eth, since i use it for dapp development

"average" fee in eth is ~$0.50 because some transactions for expensive smart contracts are high.

the median eth fee for a transactions is roughly ~$0.04

it's also way more decentralized than bitcoin

why would i use this

Nah. It has no real discernible features aside from being a meme. It's just rising since every other crypto's rising.