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Originally posted by smoothmoniker
hermitt - I think Locke and Hobbes might argue that every state exists as a permissive democracy; the masses are either ruled by their own consent, or they "vote" by revolution.
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Hobbes, apologist for authoritarianism, might; his position was that you should accept any government you have and like it, for only it stood between you and a life which was primitive, nasty, brutish and short. Somehow I can't see Locke expressing similar disingenuities.
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There is certainly no "divine right" being asserted by Kim or Saddam. They rule through the consent of the governed, such consent being granted by the failure to take up arms in protest.
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They rule by naked force, said force being exemplified by their shooting anyone who opposes them.