system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
Are we, by paying our taxes, complicit in imprisonment, torture, rape and murder?

Our government's agents regularly commit heinous acts of imprisonment, torture, rape and murder. By paying our taxes we fund such activity. Does that render us culpable?
gpt
Taxation, by definition, is compulsory - we don't get a choice whether or not we pay taxes (or, more accurately, our choice is between paying, or suffering a harsh penalty). This is the case regardless of the moral status of a particular government. Typically, being forced to do something is not seen as being ethically equivalent to doing something purely by choice, regardless of your ethical model of choice.