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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: TimF who wrote (6537)12/10/2005 3:32:21 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 542155
 
iMaybe you could expand on what you mean by a legitimate and illegitimate government.

You already said it didn't matter for your purposes whether the government is legitimate or not--it's extortion either way, so the definition of legitimate is beside the point.

Perhaps it would be more useful if you would tell us why the government doesn't have this moral right. Specifically, what does moral have to do with it. It has the legal right if there's a legally established law that says it does. So what's this about moral right?
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