the origin is not necessarily the ground
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Replying to @cyborg_nomade @Dick71224996 and
Well, the ground is that there's no social organization without authority, hence no individual power to act (since individual human beings are unable to survive outside social organization).
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Replying to @mr_scientism @cyborg_nomade and
Everything we do requires authority and all authority is ultimately granted by sovereign authority and sovereign authority can only be granted by a prior sovereign authority.
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Replying to @mr_scientism @Dick71224996 and
you see how this leads to infinite regression, right?
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Replying to @cyborg_nomade @Dick71224996 and
There obviously has to be an original act of authority, but it would have been a rather mundane affair and there's no reason to think it'd be open to subsequent members of the society after its founding.
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Replying to @mr_scientism @Dick71224996 and
why wouldn't there? up until now putting authority to test is still a common thing.
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Replying to @cyborg_nomade @Dick71224996 and
Because the original act of authority is ordering the others into delegated roles, where it's not available to them.
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Replying to @mr_scientism @cyborg_nomade and
It's completely coherent to oppose a particular person being in a position of authority (based on performance, etc) or to think a particular non-sovereign position should be abolished; it makes no sense to oppose authority as such or to try to abolish sovereign authority.
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Replying to @mr_scientism @Dick71224996 and
in this sense, why would authority be a merely human affair?
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Replying to @cyborg_nomade @mr_scientism and
Because we have no evidence of non-humans telling humans what to do.
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