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Re: resistance is futile
Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2020 7:18 pm
by commonsense
Advocate wrote: ↑Mon Dec 21, 2020 3:56 am
To not resist power based on an illegitimate national selection system is treason, but resisting is almost certainly at your own cost with no discernible benefit. What then is the ethical thing to do?
To resist power or not—which are you asking then is the ethical thing to do?
Re: resistance is futile
Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2020 8:43 pm
by Skip
Advocate wrote: ↑Mon Dec 21, 2020 6:57 am
It must put me in charge.
I see.
Re: resistance is futile
Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2020 8:45 pm
by Sculptor
Advocate wrote: ↑Mon Dec 21, 2020 3:56 am
To not resist power based on an illegitimate national selection system is treason, but resisting is almost certainly at your own cost with no discernible benefit. What then is the ethical thing to do?
As usual you seem to be talking about nothing other than the obscure fetid workings of your own mind.
WTF is "national selection system"
Re: resistance is futile
Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2020 8:59 pm
by commonsense
Do you mean not to resist based on illegitimate national selection system or power that is based on an illegitimate national selection system?
Re: resistance is futile
Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2020 9:57 pm
by commonsense
Advocate wrote: ↑Mon Dec 21, 2020 4:49 pm
commonsense wrote: ↑Mon Dec 21, 2020 4:27 pm
Any government that must put a particular agent in charge is illegitimate for the rest of the population.
If that was so then there could be no such thing as a legitimate government because the buck always must stop somewhere, whether or not that's a person approved by everyone.
A government could be legitimate when it may put
any single individual in charge.
But when a government must put a
particular individual in charge, it will not be legitimate.
Re: resistance is futile
Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2020 10:02 pm
by commonsense
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Looking back, I note that there are about half a dozen questions that still need to be answered or at least addressed in some way.
Were you not planning to do that?
Re: resistance is futile
Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2020 5:11 am
by Advocate
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Do you mean not to resist based on illegitimate national selection system or power that is based on an illegitimate national selection system?
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Power based on illegitimate criteria in any sense.
Re: resistance is futile
Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2020 5:12 am
by Advocate
[quote=commonsense post_id=485796 time=1608584534 user_id=14610]
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Looking back, I note that there are about half a dozen questions that still need to be answered or at least addressed in some way.
Were you not planning to do that?
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I answer ones that seen to be moving forward, which isn't a lot, but also check my messages pseudo-randomly i'm afraid.