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Dirk Jacobsz's avatar

Well said Ely..

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Everything Voluntary Jack's avatar

Ely, well done, you have focussed on the one premise we Voluntaryists start from: governments--any would be "legitimate" rulers--can only rule if the ruled allow them to by believing in their moral right to rule.

“Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break into pieces.” Étienne de La Boétie, The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude

No one rules if no one obeys.

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