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Originally Posted by Trotskilicious
then he says i'm trying to troll and argue
it's really quite sad
i think everyone else understood the point, it's fairly simple.
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Neither side is making sense.
Nimrod shouldn't have said that you can get by living in a city without obligating yourself to someone at all. If someone is wanting to be hypercritical about it and take it painfully literally, then sure, that statement is wrong. There is a baseline level of obligation you must submit to in order to get by in modern society even if you're just out for yourself.
But on the other hand, everyone else has been shifting freely between
specific moral and legal obligations to you and yours (eg. pay your taxes, support your family) and vague, pie-in-the-sky, "everyone's all in this together" BS and treating them as though they're the same concept. In reality, those are two different things with two wholly different sets of implications. I don't think you have to reject the former to reject the latter.
Perhaps what Nimrod meant was "Perhaps you're not aware but it is possible to live in a city and still not be obligated to
everyone else."