Re:Spy agency ducks questions about 'back doors' in tech pro...
by sudosysgen on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @09:37PM
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Governmental legitimacy comes from much more than just property and taxation. The government is entrusted with the monopoly on violence, and thus anyone on whom this violence is expected to be applied deserves a vote. There are other reasons too, but this is an important one.
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Re:Spy agency ducks questions about 'back doors' in tech pro...
by bigiain on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @10:06PM
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> and thus anyone on whom this violence is expected to be applied deserves a vote.
Or people who might be expected to get sent away to inflict violence and suffer the consequent dangers of doing so.
Heinlein was all sorts of fucked up, but his repeated idea of ex serving military being more equipped to vote for the people who get to choose to deploy the military certainly has some merit.