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RE: Pages from the Diary of a Quiet Boy (II): Lost In the Woods?
Did you have certain questions as a kid... that remain "questions" years and decades later?
Actually I do.
IF...governments derive their just powers from the people
that would mean that governments can only do what people can do.
THEN
why is it OK for governments to do something that people are not allowed to do?
Taxation comes to mind...among other acts of violence..
Yup, that's a good one.
Philosophically speaking... ANY "authority" that somehow holds itself above the laws/ideals it was created to serve.
Now, at a deeper level... do I blame "the authority" simply because it happens to be "an authority" or do I blame the part/segment of humanity that's inherently manipulative and sees any opening as an opportunity to exploit for gain?
Laws/rules... do they make sense? If we don't have them, we can argue they'd never be broken, because there ain't any. But is it inherently "right" for someone to shoot and kill their neighbor for borrowing a lawnmower without asking? Does having a law that says "stealing is a crime" make sense?
A lot of this stuff becomes quite ambiguous...
ZAP..not ambiguous at all.