Name: Justice: What's The Right Thing To Do? Episode 05: "HIRED GUNS"
Uploaded: 2013-04-19T12:21:16.000Z
Duration: 55 min 10 s
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we were discussing Locke's idea of government by consent

the agreement of the majority can't override

a democratically elected government has the right to tax people

because it does involve the taking of people's property

but once you take on that obligation you agree to be bound by the majority

what about the idea that we own ourselves

can through coercive legislation and enforcement powers say

you must go risk your life to fight in Iraq

what would Locke say? does the government have the right to do that?

the general can condemn the soldier to death for deserting his post or for not obeying

but with all their power over life and death

nothing to do with the rightful authority

so consent winds up being very powerful in Locke, not consent of the individual to the

but consent to join the government and to be  bound by the majority in the first place

the even the limited government created by the fact that we have an unalienable right

even that limited government is only limited in the sense that it has to govern by generally

applicable laws, the rule of law, it can't be arbitrary

creating political authority and the obligation to obey

today we begin to investigate the question of consent

to conscript citizens to go fight in wars.

others disagree others say that's a legitimate

of government, of democratically elected government anyhow,

the united states fighting a war in Iraq.

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Justice: What's The Right Thing To Do? Episode 05: "HIRED GUNS"

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