re: #239 MandyManners
I disagree. We are not made for the state. The state is made for us.
Untrue. It’s the state who decides, for example, the fate of a murderer - not the victim’s family. And to revisit one of my earlier examples, if a child is murdered by their parent’s withholding of proper medical care, or is threatened by such action, the state’s authority clearly trumps the individual, not the other way ‘round.
Again, I think you’re confusing two separate issues: the fact that the state holds ultimate authority, and precisely where the line between state and individual action gets drawn.