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Why don't you rephrase that with the appropriate level of detail and not leaving out important facts: Is not wanting to pay for something that you were given an
by zo1 11y ago
Why don't you rephrase that with the appropriate level of detail and not leaving out important facts: Is not wanting to pay for something that you were given and didn't explicitly request theft? And yes, I'm an anarcho-capitalist and jumping in here.
There are a slew of assumptions that are being made when arguing for a pro-state stance. Eventually, you'll stumble on this thing called the "social contract", and then magically all questions of validity are somehow answered. It's a convenient answer devoid of any first-principles, that many are content with using as a basis to defend the status-quo of the existence of a state.
- rwjwjuwjudf 11y agoThere's no such thing as no state. For any conflict, whoever wins is the de facto state.
- zo1 11y agoI think you'd get disagreements from both sides of the fence on that definition of a state.
- koenigdavidmj 11y agoAll of the theories of who is a state or not fail as soon as real geopolitics is involved. Taiwan is not a state in the eyes of the US simply because China wouldn't play nicely if we said otherwise. Saudi Arabia during its formation in the early 1900s would have been indistinguishable from the ISIS of today.