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    One is not required to obey a state solely because the st... — Carmelics
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    One is not required to obey a state solely because the state has issued a command.

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    • 1.Obedience is not owed to the state on the basis of the state's authority alone.
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    • 2.The justness of the commanded action, not the source of the command, grounds the obligation to obey.
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    • 1.A legitimate state authority generates content-independent reasons for obedience, as Raz argues in 'The Morality of Freedom' (1986).
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    • 2.If citizens only obey commands they independently judge just, coordinated governance and the rule of law become structurally impossible.
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    • 3.The service conception of authority holds that states better enable subjects to conform to right reason than individual judgment alone.
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    • 1.Associative obligations, as defended by Dworkin, arise from membership in a political community and are not reducible to the justice of particular commands.
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    • 2.Requiring independent evaluation of each command's justice privileges those with epistemic resources, systematically disadvantaging the marginalized.
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    It is important to note that this view does not imply that one must never obey the state. It merely implies that one does not have content independent duties to obey the state and that the state does not have a right to rule. A reasonably just state will command one to do things that are reasonably just and in many cases one must obey those commands because they are just. What one is not required to do on the philosophical anarchist view is obey any state just because it has commanded one to do
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