In order to see the light, one must first stop hiding one's self and come out into the light.
Authority that destroys the conditions of assent destroys its own legitimacy. View quoted note β†’
No generation possesses the moral authority to permanently bind the volitional agency of those who follow. Any political or legal order that denies future persons the capacity to revise, exit, or re-assent to its terms risks the same incoherence as an irrevocable contract or hereditary servitude. View quoted note β†’
The case against "voluntary" indefinite slavery, hereditary slavery and chattel slavery - Voluntary agreements are morally valid only so long as they preserve the future exercise of volition. Any agreement that authorizes the permanent negation of agency, whether through death, irreversible servitude, or hereditary obligation, is void by contradiction. Such an agreement destroys the very faculty that makes assent possible. Without that faculty, the agreement cannot remain morally binding.
β€œbeneath its moral rhetoric lies a structural inversion: copyleft captures a genuine human moral impulse while redirecting it away from personal responsibility and toward ideological compliance. The result is not moral clarity, but a moral trapβ€”one that produces virtue signaling, resentment, and the erosion of accountability.β€œ View Article β†’
Imagine your neighbor once every spring coming over to your house to shuffle through all your papers, emails, browser history, bank and credit card history, then shove an endoscope into your rectum to check for any hidden valuables. Then he leaves with 3/4 of everything new you recieved over the year. But you are not permitted to know anything about him, not even his name or even ever allowed to enter onto his front yard. You don't need to imagine, it's already happening. Your neighbor is called the federal government.