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Re:How Employers Get Out of Paying Their Workers by mhuffman on Monday May 25, 2015 @05:30AM (#9599267)
A liberal democratic Western society has law. That is what is missing from you and your friends out at the bar. Just by being born into society, you have to agree to be governed by that explicit system of law. This, now, includes income taxes, policing, etc.

To your example, specifically, if you and your friends had an explicit system of law governing your night on the town, then yes, they could agree that you should pay the bill and collect the money by force.

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Re:How Employers Get Out of Paying Their Workers by monort on Monday May 25, 2015 @07:03AM (#9599498)
Being born into system can't be an explanation, because it can explain slavery too: by being born into slavery society you have to agree to be governed by that system of law.
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Re:How Employers Get Out of Paying Their Workers by bayesianhorse on Tuesday May 26, 2015 @04:47AM (#9603559)
You don't have to agree to it, because it doesn't matter. You don't have a choice so you are in slavery.

In modern states, you don't have a lot of choices either. But at least, even though you are "forced" into a society, you eventually get the right to participate politically.

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