What is Legitimate Authority?

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[1111BLAKE1111]

(3) if you equate the higest authority of world domination (bankers, politicians, etc.) to that of sharks. then what would you do? let them kill you? or fight back? my thinking is now very tempted to lean towards violent protest and i mean im like seriously wondering where our anarchy armies are and when is the next fight. and i dont think this analogy is all that extreme. what ae your thoughts?

[saydaysago2008]

@1111BLAKE1111 I think the analogy is entirely extreme, and not at all analogous. ;). A shark isnot a human. not even close. A shark cannot think, cannot reason, cannot be reasoned with. There are very few (if any) humans you could say this about.

Now you mention self-defense, in which case I of course support the use of force to protect yourself, and to RESTRAIN the abuser, but I would not be fighting them, I would simply be stopping them from fighting me, if that makes any sense.

(cont'd)

[saydaysago2008]

@1111BLAKE1111

Bottom line, violent revolutions don't work. Initiating force accomplishes nothing but to generate a more forceful retaliation.

These (bankers, politicians, etc), who dominate the world? They do it by the consent of their victims (us). We need to do nothing more than withdraw that consent. They have no power if we don't grant it to them. That is the ONLY way out..

Fighting them might kill the ones in power now, but overall it will do nothing but perpetuate the status quo.

[brucegalliver]

"There is no law, other than natural law."

:)

Came up with that one myself :)

Great vid again dude.

Love the use of Python!

x

[saydaysago2008]

@brucegalliver 'Love the use of Python!'

heh thank /strawprophet for that. :)

[Neanderthalcouzin]

@saydaysago2008 Mutual Aid is the book, if you check out Kropotkin.

[tbirdlauderdale]

is that you veech you hack

[1111BLAKE1111]

(2) His chances werent looking good. The shark had his head and upper body clenched in its jaws. The diver thought of his family and how he would never see them again. As his breath ran out he suddenly remembered what other divers had told him. To jab the skarks eyes out. He struggled for a minute until he finally got his finger in a socket. The shark still continued its attack. Another minute and he got the other eye. finally the shark gave up. the diver had survived and returned 2 the surface

[1111BLAKE1111]

(1) Hey! Saydaysago! Got your attention? Good. First off thank you for your videos. I think they serve a great purpose. Now... I was thinking the other day about peaceful protest vs. violent protest. And whether one would be more beneficial over the other. At first I lean towards peaceful, but after watching this program on tv it challenged my thinking. in the program an abolone diver got attacked by this great white shark. The shark knocked his regulator out of his mouth so he had no more air.

[tahir6500]

nice video..

[Okoth45]

Thanks for the work toward a sane world. I will help spread it around.

[yalodijoelchivo]

@brucegalliver and it is the truth completely

[yalodijoelchivo]

i love what this say about the social contract! its the truth!!!