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That costs money. I have to buy the right to hunt on public land or I go to prison for poaching

If I choose not to I die. I can buy the food from someone who already has it, I can buy the right to make my own food, or I can choose to starve to death

I can only do so on land that I purchased. Or on someone else's land I purchased the right to do so on

You can choose what, when, how much, and from whom, but you are still are still forced to do so. Choosing which person puts me at gunpoint doesn't make it voluntary

Not super long, but Consider Phlebas is pretty action packed. Two agents on opposing sides of a war trying to secure the same thing

Land of the free wealthy white Christian men

It gets worse. The Montana legislature censured their only trans representative for speaking out against this law, and several others. Later barring her from the house floor entirely

Do you think, then, that we should reverse any decisions made purely on witness testimony?

Yes. Eyewitness testimony alone shouldn't be enough to convict anyone.

Are extra dimensional aliens really the simplest explanation for "Drunk man is burned, and finds radioactive stuff in the woods"?