PO301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Stateless Society
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If a genuinely voluntary choice, you have consented. Vast majority of people can"t afford to move. Choice to leave potentially but options of where to leave to are fundamentally limited. More positive view of the stateless societies exist - people could form communes or suchlike because they still have obligations to each other. We don"t have access to this obviously because we have no way of experiencing human development absent the context of the state. The obligations would mean that we don"t need the state to enforce them because they are so strong. If no situation of choice, not really consenting. Possible for someone to be able to leave but not in fact have the choice - unchosen intimate connections. This means that it"s not a truly free choice. But deep unchosen connections and also differential quality of life. But not clear why one would consent to the whole arrangement of laws, as opposed to just being kept alive.
