Quote from: AyeYo on September 28, 2011, 11:49:24 PM

Quote from: FredericBastiat on September 28, 2011, 11:23:10 PM

Quote from: AyeYo on September 28, 2011, 11:01:43 PM

No, what I get is social contract and backing by society.

He intentionally said YOU and not SOCIETY, because if it's ME setting the standards, that's easy to argue against. If it's SOCIETY setting the standards, that's much more difficult to argue against.

If I hire hitmen to do my dirty work, am I not responsible for the death of my neighbor? I suppose technically speaking that'd be false, but still ugly (I didn't "pull the trigger" personally). If you use the voting mechanism to achieve legislation, you have a difficult time determining who the "hitmen" were. It's all well hidden and abstracted within the mechanism of statism.

My statement obviously went miles over your head, because nothing you said was even remotely relevant.

No, it's relevant. You just either didn't understand his point, or are willfully ignorant of the implications.