freediver wrote on Feb 2
nd, 2026 at 6:39pm:
Meister do you actually believe that you have the right to do something, even if the consistent and predictable result is someone trying to kill you, because pieces of paper trump reality? And if so, why did you start back pedalling to those vague and nebulous concepts like societal contract and greater forces?
Or were you just being slippery and evasive?
Wars have been fought, people have died, for that exact cause.
The American colonists claimed the right to overthrow tyrannical government, which they wrote on a piece of paper, and charged the British king with tyranny, then took up arms against him to assert their newly-codified rights.
Under the British social contract, the colonists were committing acts of treason and sedition against their rightful sovereign.
The matter was settled when the stronger forces prevailed over the weaker ones.