> But these things only hold personal spiritual/ redemptive value if done voluntarily.
If you voluntarily elect a government that will make it into law or work toward its establishment, your redemption is assured, because you did it voluntarily.
In this case, the end being the eradication of poverty and all its ills, wouldn't be a noble goal we could all work towards?
And, even if it never becomes codified as law, if it just become a universal social norm, to not work for the accumulation of resources and power, but instead to work for your own and other's betterment, wouldn't that goal be fulfilled?
No, you're just rephrasing "the ends justifies the means", except the with added moral superiority of "I'm voting so that makes use of force ok".
'Voluntarily' supporting mandatory laws misses the entire point: that individual acts matter and sacrifice for others matters.
Especially when voting for tax schemes that might cost you very little because they're sold as "only taxing those that can afford it" or "the 1%" or whatever.
>If you voluntarily elect a government that will make it into law or work toward its establishment, your redemption is assured, because you did it voluntarily.0
But these things only hold personal spiritual/ redemptive value if done voluntarily.
Forced charity isn't charitable.
Not all ideals that you believe in (religious or not) should be manifested through political and then legal implementations.
And if you miss that key aspect... then it just becomes another philosophy where the ends justify the means.