• MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip
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    20 days ago

    The “not making decisions for me” part is a very Trump-like thing to say. Society only works by compromise.

    A federalist democracy is probably the closest we get to a free society, and one difficult part of it is, that you have to make decisions for others.

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      20 days ago

      The “not making decisions for me” part is a very Trump-like thing to say. Society only works by compromise.

      Society only works by consent. If the people do not consent to the laws, they are authoritarian and should be resisted.

      Any top-down system of governance will never be free by its very nature.

      The only free society we will get is an anarchist one where people agree to work together and create rules that they can all abide by. Those who don’t want to abide by the communities rules can leave.

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        19 days ago

        The only free society we will get is an anarchist one where people agree to work together and create rules that they can all abide by. Those who don’t want to abide by the communities rules can leave.

        That’s not anarchy. That’s some form of democracy.

        Any top-down system of governance will never be free by its very nature.

        That’s exactly the kind of logic bullies use to inflict their freedom on others.

        Society only works by consent. If the people do not consent to the laws, they are authoritarian and should be resisted.

        Real “I’m 14 and this is deep” energy here. Laws and governance of any kind are inherently rooted in consent to authority. Hell, even being a good citizen in an anarchy is about consenting to the authority of etiquette, basically the tyranny of empathy over free will. Authority invites resistance, arguing for resistance to authority simply because it exists is an empty nothing burger of a philosophy.

        This all feels like a libertarian dog whistle to excuse politics lacking any empathy.