Half your definitions included "moral" or "right". And that's what I'm getting at. It's low IQ to pretend that force alone generates authority, which carries the idea of moral or rightful obligation for obedience. It's important because authority and tyranny are opposites and we should then act differently with regard to them.
And what about the other half? Authority doesn't necessarily have to be legal or moral, it can be, that's all
>And that's what I'm getting at.
You're getting nowhere
> It's low IQ to pretend that force alone generates authority
Who has the authority when you're captured by a cartel, tied to a chair and surrounded by 10 of them, in a cave
You? Or their boss?
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You're naive and you're not very bright, obviously, so you can shove that "low IQ" up your ass, and spin...
> It's important because authority and tyranny are opposites
No, they aren't mutually exclusive, ask north koreans...
No, they aren't mutually exclusive, ask north koreans...
Fair, I misspoke. Should have said that just authority and tyranny are opposites. And I should have put "just" in the title.
>Should have said that just authority and tyranny are opposites.
Again, you are merely trying to lawyer yourself out of reality by playing scrabble here
Again, go tell that to the bunch of tyrants I mentioned earlier, and see what happens. "You have no authority!". And then they start beating the shit out of your parents right in front of you, and you can't do anything about it.
Now tell us, who has the authority here in that situation? You don't recognize their authority the beating continues... How long are you going to pretend they don't have the authority? They literally get to decide who gets to live and who dies in that room and you aren't in a position to do shit about it
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