Instead, politics on a grand scale is influenced by other factors such as technology, topography, and climate. In their book The Sovereign Individual, James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg argue that individuals have minimal influence on the overarching political structure. I’m beginning to question whether it will ever cease to exist in any form or if we, as individuals, have control over what it looks like. The state is an institution that relies on aggressive violence for sustenance and is, therefore, an immoral entity.īut, despite being immoral, it still exists. Aggressive violence can’t be moral under any circumstances. Some form of libertarianism is what ought to be. The biggest uncertainty with libertarianism is not whether it is moral but whether it is achievable.
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