09-07-2006, 08:58 PM
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Yar.
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Dennis
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Originally Posted by Aphaetonism
I'm speaking of legal authority but I guess other types of authority can be considered too.
Every country has laws its citizens are expected to follow. Why should they? What possible reason do I as a citizen have to follow any law if I don't feel like it? What is it that the authorities in charge of creating and/or enforcing laws need to do to get me to follow the law?
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Why should you follow laws? John Locke (French philosopher) suggested that a government's legitimacy (authority is the ability of the government to use power, not its right to use power.) comes from a Social Contract between the people and the government. Without the government, chaos would ensue. If there is no cooperation, everyone would be worse off. Therefore, in order to give others no right to break the law, you ought to follow it.
Ultimately, legitimacy in government has to come from the consent of the people in some form.
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Originally Posted by adamark
This is the story of not getting banned: I trolled a liberal forum for about 3 years until I finally gave up and left. They never banned me for my conservative rhetoric (aka bullshit) because they were bleeding hearts that couldn't even take their own side in a debate. They ended up winning, I suppose, because now I'm a bleeding heart liberal.  |
Last edited by Kikuichimonji; 09-07-2006 at 09:15 PM.
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