"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
The ‘Moral Illusion’ of Governmental Authority
Submitted by Jad Davis on Mon, 2012-01-23 01:00
Wow! This philosopher says reality is real and he *still* gets to hold a position at a public university. How'd that happen?: "Huemer notes that he likes some aspects of the social-contract theory. 'The only thing that’s wrong with it is that it’s false,' he observes. 'There was no time at which somebody wrote up this contract and everybody signed it.'"
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