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0 sats \ 4 replies \ @Aardvark 17 Feb \ parent \ on: Do you believe in authority? AskSN
It is to an extent. I've given my company the authority to make some decisions over my life that I don't always agree with, but for compensation. I can always terminate this contract. That's why I said following authority blindly is evil. I dont follow my company blindly, if they said kill someone I'd quit. I've only agreed to give them authority very specific things.
this is voluntary by you, you can walk away any moment (at least theoretically, then given the horrible nature of the nanny states theres potentially 100 laws preventing that and forcing both you and the employer into god knows what, but at least you've agreed to it when you agreed to the employment). With state's authority you really can't. You're born into servitude and it takes extreme measures to get out of it, and that will limit your freedoms in other direction (if you give up your passport/citizenship) and live in the wilderness somewhere you will likely have a very hard time traveling to other places that have boarders and require you to have permission to enter them
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Basically what i said to @DarthCoin I think we're all in overall agreement that government = bad. I may be using the word "authority" differently than you, but ultimately we agree, and are on the same side of this debate.
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Anyway you should be careful, because you first start calling authority when it is voluntary, and you end up accepting, because of ignorance or mal-education, any kind of authority.
We should make a clear distinction between leadership and authority. One implies voluntary participation, the other one implies submission.