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Why should I give a helping hand? My hand is my own. What have they done to deserve it? etc. etc. ad nauseam

• Frondo 11y ago
  Because we are all a part of society, and as such we all have some small responsibility to one another (e.g. paying taxes, obeying laws even when there's no risk of being caught, etc).
  • nickff 11y ago
    What you are asserting is that governments have 'political authority'; the only problem with that is that very few philosophers actually agree with that (despite a great deal of work attempting to justify political authority).[1][2][3] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Problem_of_Political_Authority https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Problem_of_Political_Autho... [2] http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/authority/#ReaConConLegPolAut http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/authority/#ReaConConLegPol... [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_anarchism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_anarchism
  • debacle 11y ago
    I think anon4 was playing devil's advocate.