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 (DIR) Post #9nSmtn2TvNwb7xvBMu by jmgresham@gnusocial.no
       2019-09-30T23:25:16+00:00
       
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       Obey the powers that be. If this means yield to force, it is a good precept, but superfluous: I can answer for its never being violated. All power comes from God, I admit; but so does all sickness: does that mean that we are forbidden to call in the doctor? A brigand surprises me at the edge of a wood: must I not merely surrender my purse on compulsion; but, even if I could withhold it, am I in conscience bound to give it up? For certainly the pistol he holds is also a power. - Rousseau