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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Replying to @Outsideness @cyborg_nomade and
You realize the production of commodities, legal systems, property norms and market regulations require command hierarchies to function right? Without these processes, how could these 'price signals' become intelligible?
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Replying to @Dick71224996 @cyborg_nomade and
The Scottish Enlightenment explained all of this a lot better than you guys do.
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Replying to @Outsideness @Dick71224996 and
"Much of the opposition to a system of freedom under general laws arises from the inability to conceive of an effective co-ordination of human activities without deliberate organization by a commanding intelligence." -- Hayek on Neoabsolutismhttps://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/LtrLbrty/bryTSO.html …
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Replying to @mr_scientism @Outsideness and
I think common law is brilliant, of course for it to work it requires judges to make decisions and respect judicial hierarchies.
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This is totally upside down. They respect legal precedent, which emerges bottom-up from the history of local decisions. The absolutist model of legislation is intrinsically alien to it.
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