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The Problem of Political Authority

Free Thoughts

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The Obviousness of the State

The obviousness, the agreed upon ness, possibly, or the obviousness is, counts in favor of its being true. This is something a lot of philosphors would disreth. I'm given that it would be irrational for you to take the things that that less, that seem less obvious, rather than the things that seem more obvious. We can't analogize back to individual behavior, because an individual is obviously not a state. It's extremely implausible that merely the property of being a state is explanatory for why it's permissible to coerce people.

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