Originally Posted by jammies
Wrong.
Wrong, you can be coerced and you will be if you defy certain Acts or Statutes that proscribe penalties. This isn't even debatable, it happens ALL THE TIME.
Probably wrong if it made any sense.
Correct and bolded for emphasis.
Wrong, and to elaborate, this is a semantic error with vast consequences. Your whole theory relies upon a misreading of "fictional" as "false" when the correct meaning was, is, and will always be "abstract".
Wrong by virtue of extreme oversimplification.
Wrong even for Monopoly money. Money, like everything else, has the value that one person will give another for it; in other words its value is not viewpoint-dependent as "you give it" implies.
Wrong. Much else has value other than labour, even in a barter economy without money.
Wrong, and one of the prime sources of the rest of the wrongness. IOU implies a contract, which paper money is not. Paper money is a physical expression of a measure of value, not a contract and not a promise to pay. Saying it is either of those things does not make it so.
-edit- Currency backed by precious metals like silver or gold can be thought of as an IOU, because in theory you can turn over so much currency and receive so much metal from the issuing authority. Fiat currency, on the other hand, does not qualify.
Wrong and again skirts with not even making sense.
Wrong because you have no proof and extraordinary assertions require extraordinary proof.
Wrong if you ever want to convince anyone less gullible than a 2 year old child.
Wrong, they will lose and think they've won.
Yay! Correct for once!
Wrong, and again with the IOU nonsense.
Now get ready and think real hard now - what makes "precious metal" actually precious, and how does that differ from what makes "fiat currency" precious? Hint - think "arbitrary assignation of value" and you're getting close.
Wrong. You can't reinterpret the law to your own advantage unless you get the legal apparatus to go along with you. The agents of coercion - the police, the courts, the lawyers - will demonstrate the futility of such a course.
Wrong, and again coercion is a certainty.
Wrong, and once again you confuse "abstract" with "fictional", which apparently is the entire basis of your worldview. A whole philosophy built upon not understanding the difference between what is unreal, and what is false.
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