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#21 Posted : 6/5/2012 4:21:43 PM

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polytrip wrote:
" you are not allow to steal, but if you´d want, you can skip this rule".


This is actually true.
 

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#22 Posted : 6/5/2012 11:52:45 PM

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Anarchy would suck...

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#23 Posted : 6/7/2012 8:30:41 AM
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Polytrip, all valid points. I'm not saying that the social contract is not justified and I agree that it is rational.

I guess what I was trying to say (what I should've said) is that, though we can choose which government we are ruled by, we cannot choose to be free of government. In that sense, we are not really free at all. There is just the illusion of being able to decide how we govern our own lives. The reach of the government expands far beyond the scope of the basic seemingly-natural duties that you mentioned. So why do we need governments if these duties are so utterly obvious and expected?

Governments don't guarantee that the social contract is upheld anyway; They just make it slightly harder to break.
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you are not allow to steal, but if you´d want, you can skip this rule
[as long as you can get away with it]
That's basically how laws work. Anarchy may be an idealist system, but so is republicanism. Some people are going to always choose freedom over security, and others will always choose security over freedom. That's just a matter of preference and there's really nothing we can do about it. I'm just not sure from what angle, if any, we can come at this anarchy debate that will lead to a progression of viewpoints instead of a clashing of unreconcilable preferences.
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