tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543853523791774463.post6261837077337169001..comments2023-10-06T11:13:20.836-04:00Comments on Izgad: Dulce et Decorum Est Pro Patria MoriIzgadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03869626126435460209noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543853523791774463.post-49079786768256275692010-07-22T12:50:13.890-04:002010-07-22T12:50:13.890-04:00I am not here claiming that government authority i...I am not here claiming that government authority is absolute in any ultimate sense. The origins of government authority are another for another time. The point that I am trying to make here is that government authority needs to be something beyond the authority of shoe companies to have me continue to buy their sneakers. Dr. Friedman is an anarcho-capitalist who would have even the police and Izgadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03869626126435460209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543853523791774463.post-13142797406352601062010-07-22T12:39:43.916-04:002010-07-22T12:39:43.916-04:00I'd add that America's Revolutionary War (...I'd add that America's Revolutionary War (or the "Presbyterian Rebellion" as the British termed it) was actually more of a civil war. It could not have been fought in the name of nationalism, because the United States was still just a part of Britain, and it was not yet a separate nation to have its own nationalism. Americans were rebelling against their local, sovereign, nativeMikewind Dale (Michael Makovi)https://www.blogger.com/profile/08590233386034506578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543853523791774463.post-31369801167032380032010-07-22T12:37:42.731-04:002010-07-22T12:37:42.731-04:00I don't see how the government can possibly be...I don't see how the government can possibly be an inherent authority. <i>Nemo dat quod non habet</i>: No one can give that which he does not possess. Governments have no inherent authority (unless you stick to a strict and simple reading of Romans 13, which even John Calvin's successors did not, even though Calvin himself did), and they can only have power because the people have Mikewind Dale (Michael Makovi)https://www.blogger.com/profile/08590233386034506578noreply@blogger.com