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timebethine ([personal profile] timebethine) wrote in [personal profile] untamedantinous 2024-01-03 06:18 pm (UTC)

"That is the fundamental problem of Rousseau, is it not? How to attain order not through the threat of force--which always encourages the exercise of force--but instead through mutual agreement. But if we defer the ability to wield force to the republic, we have not resolved the problem of force; we have only changed who is permitted to wield it."

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