Do you owe society anything beyond paying your taxes, such as having children?

Furthermore, what is the bare minimum an individual should feel obligated to give back to society?

Amount aside, should taxation even be required? How about military service?

At what point has one given enough to their country?

Do you think your society or country has been especially good to you?

Feel free to opine, debate and discuss.

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G00GLE · 26-30, M

Society isn't the government, and the government collects taxes. Right?
I owe nothing to anyone in the grand scheme of things, because all of it is pointless in the end. I choose to try and be a good person, but out of my own volition not because I think I have to as part of existing.

GeistInTheMachine · 31-35, M

@G00GLE I suppose it depends on how one defines what society is. Perhaps not the best wording.

G00GLE · 26-30, M

@GeistInTheMachine I'll entertain both interpretations:
Do I owe society for anything? Nah. Society isn't a business, there is no contract stating I have to give back this and that for receiving the benefits. Is it morally questionable? Yeah probably. Living off of something or someone without giving back anything is lame, but I believe that it's not an offense if someone doesn't. Homeless people technically don't give anything back to society but depend on it to survive, I don't think they are bad people though.

Do I owe the government anything? Yeah, if it treats you well you do. Can't speak for other countries but Germany provides me with safety from almost anything. But as I wrote that I kinda realized that even then I didn't sign any contracts. Germany is being nice to me either to continue existing or because it wants people from Germany to be safe and secure.
If it's the former than I never really had a choice. I exist to benefit the country, and if I didn't work I'd be ignored, well fed and safe yes, but there is no future in that.
If it's the latter I'm back at the first statement about society. So I guess the wording worked just fine and I didn't think it through.

GeistInTheMachine · 31-35, M

@G00GLE Very well written and thought out.