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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 ris
by 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 agoWhat 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 agoI think anon4 was playing devil's advocate.