Cocana The Second
Critical Thinker
- Joined
- Dec 7, 2010
- Messages
- 449
Your idea of me being 'beaten' is to insult my headdress while refusing to accept the fact that the government is composed of people, who due to being bound by the law, and the concept of equality, require the consent of those they govern.
Show me one post where anyone here has said that.
The principal differences between us and you in relation to your consent theory are that:-
1. You gloss over the fact that no government requires unanimous support, which in turn means that your individual consent is pretty much irrelevant;
2. You don't understand what equality before the law means or, if you do, you constantly misrepresent the "everyone is equal" issue by omitting the words "before the law";
3. You ignore the fact that there are numerous examples of totalitarian states, where the wishes of the people are stamped on by those in power (ultimately the 'who holds the guns' point is extremely relevant);
4. You ignore the fact that changing a government does not of itself change the law;
5. You seem to think that relabelling statutes as "rules" somehow magics them away.
There are other reasons as well.
Then of course we come to the elephant in the room: you have never provided any proof to support your theories either.