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Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.
But the vagrant owns the whole vast earth that ends only at the nonexistent horizon, and his empire is an intangible one, for his domination and enjoyment of it are things of the spirit.
How can we be “free” as conscious agents if everything that we consciously intend is caused by events in our brain that we do not intend and of which we are entirely unaware? We can’t.
It has always been the aim of royalty and aristocracy to lower the individual liberty and independence of the common people. A baron and a minute-man could not breathe the same air.
But the bars that held you, the bars that kept you in were the luxury and soft living. It is hard to walk out on a thing like that.
Not necessarily conscription but conscription if necessary.
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