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I'd say we're all under the threat of jail time if we don't pay our taxes, so that's not being complicit -- more like coerced.
That's fair, but not clear cut.
For example, "coerced to kill someone" does not absolve a person of murder. Even under threat of their own death, or the death of their family, an act of murder is still murder since one can always choose not to commit the crime, even though the penalty may severe. Acting out of self-preservation or even just convenience (as in this case) is not clearly "not complicit."
Then, by this reasoning, if someone holds a gun to your head and demands all of your money, you should fight him off, as you will otherwise be acting in self-preservation by simply handing him your money and letting him run away with it.
I wasn't making moral judgements, I was saying it wasn't clear cut.
In addition, your rebuttal was not a direct address of my example of complicity but an extension into the opposite extreme while leaving out a very important piece of it. If you know that robber is going to use that money for heinous acts against other people (which is what we are talking about) then perhaps you should fight him off.