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Historically most ancient or medieval wars were fought by professional soldiers. Here is a Wikipedia quote "The persistent old belief that peasants and small
by afsina 8y ago
Historically most ancient or medieval wars were fought by professional soldiers.
Here is a Wikipedia quote
"The persistent old belief that peasants and small farmers gathered to form a national army or fyrd is a strange delusion dreamt up by antiquarians in the late eighteenth or early nineteenth centuries to justify universal military conscription"
I support Rothbard's view on the issue:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3TY5OhUJhw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3TY5OhUJhw
- yontherubicon 8y agoNot what I'm referring to. I'm referring specifically to those who owned land and bore arms and were referred to as Citizens in Rome. I find both the notions that conscription=slavery and that taxation=theft can only be held by someone who does not believe in any sort of duty or obligation to one's community, country, nation, or God, and that self-interest must necessarily be one's sole (or at least primary) motivating factor.
- afsina 8y agoNo, community and state are two different things. Surely I do not accept social contract theory. But I do not think we will reach a common ground arguing this issue.