Re: War arguments

From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Wed Jan 22 2003 - 14:59:08 MST


> (Samantha Atkins <samantha@objectent.com>):
>
> Fine. Are you an anarchist or a world-government fan or
> something else? Are you willing to be ruled in matters of law
> by a worldwide government regardless of your own decisions or
> the majority of people in your community or regions decisions?
> Would you willingly give up say, the US Bill of Rights for the
> UN Declaration of Human Rights?

Of course I'm an anarchist. Haven't I said that quite clearly
many times? Perhaps not lately enough. No, I am not willing to
give up my individual rights as a human being to any government
of any kind, ever, period. Nor do I expect any other human being
to. Human beings have rights. Groups of human beings do not,
except to the extent that they are given delegated rights by
/unanimous/ consent of members who are free to revoke them. I also
don't care about paper laws or declarations: if they agree with the
rights I already have as a human, they're merely poetic expression.
If they disagree, they are meaningless, so in no case does
anything on paper have any authority merely because it's on paper.

Now, to be practical, I am resigned to the fact that I must live
my life under things like "countries" and "laws" which I don't
recognize, because they are enforced by guns, and I recognize the
power if not the authority. So I pay taxes, and apply for licenses
and so on, and work within the system to make it more free. But
don't mistake my assent for recognition of any moral authority.

-- 
Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lee/>
"All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past,
are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified
for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC


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