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 Posted: Thu Aug 8th, 2013 12:12 pm
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 Joe, I left a reply above your last reply. I am hoping you see it.

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I can offer. Do you at least know what is not authority, beyond a reasonable doubt?

It seems to me that anyone with a gun who says, "Come out with your hands up, or I will shoot," has a reasonable amount of self imposed authority being imposed upon the person who is supposed to come out with the hands up.

Authority can be good or evil? Authority is a tool? It depends on whether the black hat or the white hat is using authority?

So, what is not authority? My guess is it is someone who does not have the power to back up their authority.

Now the black hat may be a false authority, but still, the black hat has the might to force in an authoritarian way without regard of the person being forced.

So I am wondering, perhaps the question needs to be asked whether one should submit to the might of a false authority in order to preserve one's own life and that of their loved ones.