It's funny that you think you're the
mature one.
I see. So basically what you want is to do whatever you want, whenever, however, to whomever you please without being held accountable except where you feel you should be help accountable. Sounds like you're an anarchist.
Nope. I never said that I don't want there to be a state (in fact I said the opposite, stating I believe such a system is impossible) and it's not something I desire to be true. That doesn't change the fact that it's illusory legitimacy if you claim it's anything other than "We've got more people than you, so we'll beat the shit out of you if you don't do as we say".
Besides, you never answered any of the real inquiries I made on that point, because I'm fairly certain that in a majority of cases you do the exact same thing, since you don't have a clue what the law actually says. It's impossible to. It's just an excuse to get rid of you after the fact, but what actually keeps you doing the right thing is.. nothing. It's just you doing the right thing. Plenty of research shows that punishment that is not immediately administered after the misdeed isn't effective at all. It's the same reason you can't beat your children without a connection to something they just did to make them anything other than abusive people. Imprisoning or fining people outside of the time-frame doesn't make them more of a good person than before, it's either that they intended to do it, they didn't know or that your law is bad. If it's the first then unless you catch them in the act then it's a poor psychological conditioning, if it's the second then you accomplish nothing and if it's the third it shouldn't be there in the first place.
Also, McCarthy called, he wanted to congratulate you on inventing that brilliant new argument of trying to shame someone through association.
If you don't want to be bound to contracts which hold you legally accountable within the country which you reside, then move to a country that does not recognize contracts or something. Either way, that "Social Contract" you presume you didn't sign...that's actually what you sign by being a citizen of a country with laws. If you decide, when you're all grown up and hairy, that you don't like that "contract" anymore, you're free to move to another country that has a social contract you agree with. I'm certain Sweden isn't going to stop you.
Nonsense. I never signed a contract to be a citizen either. If you're saying it's on a voluntary basis then you can't just ignore the step behind what you're actually saying. It's forced upon you without your permission at birth. Do you really think it's controversial to say that? Surely that much is obvious. Also you make an immense amount of presumptions in the latter half. That I, or anyone, would have the resources to move to a completely different country for ideological reasons, that we'd happily abandon our homeland just to let them win ("Love it or leave it"), that there is such a place, that minors/women/minorities by that very social contract could lack that right, that the world would be better off as the Confederate States of America (which very much followed the "States' rights" you're proposing), etc.
I never said I disagree with the existence of a Social Contract, but don't pretend that it isn't something just made up to try to legitimize government authority after it's already in effect. It's essentially a return of the Divine Right of Kings, but for Majority Rule. It's an improvement, and there isn't an indication we can do a whole lot better, but that doesn't change what it is.
At any rate, whether you like it or not you signed a contract with Paradox Interactive to play their games and the laws in your country hold you accountable to it. You can rail against it all you want, but it doesn't change reality.
Ah, so we can vote on what's real now, then. That's cool. I guess America decided that evolution and global warming isn't true by voting, so we can put those arguments behind us as well. It's not like it's just a bunch of people with an opinion using government resources to push their own pet ideas or anything. Nope, just an intrinsic fact of reality.
The simple fact that you don't seem to understand economics 101. I tried to lay it out as simple as I could but obviously I'm not succeeding.
Actually I'm more sympathetic to several parts of DLC development by this point than even just a couple of weeks back. Just because it doesn't convince everyone doesn't mean no-one is listening.
). If/When Paradox goes the EA route then I will complain (IE, day 1 DLC that affects gameplay). I will not delude myself into thinking DLC will go away (DLC had such promise, but sadly MS messed that up with those stupid Halo Map packs).But I will give Paradox a chance with their new method.
