And your parents can pass the buck to their parents, and they to theirs, and so on, back to Adam and Eve, or the Primordial Soup.Your parents have forced you to live a life. Well, we're all entitled to make them pay to insure us against the various risks we will face while living it. Yes? — Bartricks
It is because force can legitimately be used against those who are violating another's rights and also to make sure people pay restitution. — Bartricks
The hermit has rights. It is wrong to kill him, yes? He is entitled to defend himself against your deadly attack. So he has a right to life. — Bartricks
We recognise them using our reason — Bartricks
Not a highpoint in the intellectual life of the forums. — Banno
↪unenlightened You're well named. — Bartricks
I do not believe the state is entitled to do anything to us that we would not be justified in doing to each other in the state's absence. So, if there is no state I am still entitled to defend myself against attack, and I am still entitled to keep the food I grew and stop you from taking it from me, and I am still entitled to others keeping up their ends of bargains we've voluntarily entered into, and so on. — Bartricks
First, I have made a case — Bartricks
I make an argument that, say, Xing is immoral. — Bartricks
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