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What gives a government legitimacy and power to extort taxes and punish people? Collective acceptance and trust, nothing else. Same goes with religion. > What
by dartharva 10mo ago
What gives a government legitimacy and power to extort taxes and punish people? Collective acceptance and trust, nothing else. Same goes with religion.
> What verifiably happens to me if I don't pretend I believe your particular god exists?
Used to be not that long ago that you'd face similar punishment. It's fairly recently that religion as a social institution has weakened to obscurity. If you attack its symbols, you attack its society.
- donkeybeer 10mo agoShow me which government claims cash came from outside the universe and the govt itself invented the universe and is omnipotent and can read everyone's minds.
- donkeybeer 10mo agoAnd how many governments claim no other country or currency is legit and anyone who isn't their country is a blasphemer or at least seriously misguided? Does French government say Germans are fundamentally wrong, the German government should be dissolved and every German should be French?