Who determines “moral authority?
” Suggesting that societal conventions are immutable is what I would consider irresponsible. If society can never be wrong, no societal ills can be challenged, no unjust laws resisted for the challengers will be shouted down as immoral for daring to dissent. Moral authority, for that matter, isn’t granted by some agency from whom we must petition it. Moral authority is a function of reality of logic applied to that reality. A person who initiates force against you is violating objective moral principles and thus surrendering his or her sovereignty through that violation. I’ve read posts online by people who don’t like you or who say you shouldn’t be taken seriously. I’m not surprised. Why would you take them seriously? One of my favorite critics used to be a particularly sad, anonymous devotee of the S.C.A.R.S. combat system who seemed to have profoundly low self-esteem. A few others include people whose systems I’ve publicly panned, like the “Hikuta” practitioners, as well as various
