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Sure, the state is what allows you to be alive at all, because without it you'd probably have been killed by or enslaved by roving Mad Max style marauders. The
by hugh4 11y ago
Sure, the state is what allows you to be alive at all, because without it you'd probably have been killed by or enslaved by roving Mad Max style marauders.
Therefore you owe your life to the State and they can demand anything at all from you and you shouldn't complain. Right?
- Apocryphon 11y agoWelcome to the social contract
- Turing_Machine 11y agoYou (and others on this thread, on both sides) are pretending that there's no gradation between "roving bands of cannibal looters" (the "Mad Max" scenario) and "Tyrannical government controls every single aspect of your daily life" (the "1984" scenario), when in fact there is a very large amount of space between those two scenarios. That is a fundamentally dishonest argument. There are honest discussions of exactly where the boundaries on government power should lie, but this isn't one of them.