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Latest revision as of 18:00, 10 March 2019
On Political Legitimacy
According to John Locke, individual consent was the origin of political legitimacy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Locke
This concept has not yet been resolved in modern politics, where artificial political legitimacy trumps individual consent.
The only foreseeable solution from the OSE perspective is the reduction of size of governing bodies and units - where political legitimacy has a higher chance of accommodating individual consent.
It appears that anarchy is a state where individual consent is respected fully. However, there appears to be no known precedent of an anarchic nation state.
On Religion
Locke - "Coercing religious uniformity would lead to more social disorder than allowing diversity."
On Slavery
Hypocritical, as "he was a major investor in the English slave-trade through the Royal African Company."