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Originally Posted by Shoonra
The fact that you concede that horses are no longer allowed on city streets, is a clear indication that the govt does have authority to regulate modes of travel.
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I'm a misnamed nominalist and amateur general linguist a la Wittgenstein (google Verification Principle) and Robert Anton Wilson (I actually prefer to call myself a "real" realist and "the other side" nominalist). I believe that "authority" is a word that points to no discoverable object. (There is no spoon, either, but that's another story.)
Where's this "authority" you're talking about located? How big is it? What color is it? What does it look, smell, sound and feel like? Whence does it come? Was it here before men (common gender)? Where was it then? Whither would it go if there were no men?
This "authority" of yours sounds alot like the "freedom" that the young men in Iraq are fighting and dying for and the the young men in Vietnam fought and died for. I'll pass on it, thanks.
Another thing, it doesn't seem like there's alot that "government" doesn't have the "authority" to do (torture comes to mind).
Steve Molyneux demolishes any possible moral argument for one group to have "authority" over another, if you care to read his paper (it is rather long).
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/molyneux7.html