re: #696 stuiec

Hmm. I wonder, where do our rights come from?

Whether or not we admit it, they fundamentally issue from mutual consent between people who both refuse to dictate to their fellow citizens and refuse to be dictated to BY them, and who will even campaign to stop or prevent others from being coercively dictated to.

That is the uniquely American synthesis of the thesis and antithesis in Hegel’s master/slave dialectic; the self-reliant, rugged individualist.