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RE: The "Social Contract" Excuse
Great read and very well written. I agree with your main argument that merely existing in a place does not mean you are consenting to the rules of the coinciding government.
However, the fact is that there are really no inhabitable places on earth that you can move to where there is no ruling authority. Any power voids that open up are always filled by opportunists. The love it or leave it argument doesn't hold up but it doesn't change the fact that some kind of ruling authority will always exist. As long as humans have a propensity for violence and an ability to collaborate, force will be used to control others.
You said, "some kind of ruling authority will always exist." This is not true. The belief in "authority" is a LEARNED belief, and it can also be UNLEARNED. I know tens of thousands of people who have unlearned it already. Most of what I do is trying to more to unlearn it, as fast as possible. When the people stop believing there can be such thing as a rightful ruler, it won't matter what the sadistic control freaks want. When there is no throne to sit on, we don't have to worry about who will sit on it.
It's not a belief, it's a fact. Humans have the ability of coordinated violence. They ban together in self interest. You can unlearn as much as you want, it's not going to stop the police from throwing your ass in jail when you break some arbitrary law.
AnarchoVols unite... SOMEWHERE. How 'bout here?
pass it around.
Resteemed
For a few years between 2008 and 2013 I would spend weeks camping in the desert of Nevada and not see a soul. It was the freest I have ever been. But with freedom like that, comes great responsibility. You get in trouble, there is nobody to get you out. So while technically that was inside the borders, the practical reality is that the law was nothing more than a piece of paper out there. Anything could have happened and nobody would ever know.
Maybe instead of inhabitable I should have said inhabited. Only in complete isolation do you have that freedom. If you are there and no one is ruling over you, then you are the ruling authority.