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Title: Ultimate Authority Author: Oxyaena Date: October 12, 2020 Language: en Topics: suicide, life, death, capital punishment, authoritarianism, liberalism, fascism, authority, statism, the state, autonomy, anti-psychiatry Source: Myself. Retrieved on 2020-10-12 from [[https://peradectes.wordpress.com/2020/10/12/ultimate-authority/]] Notes: Written by Oxyaena. Contact me at https://twitter.com/realoxyaena or my Discord ID, which is Oxyaena#2207. My blog is https://peradectes.wordpress.com/
I was told by my neurologist if I “had thoughts or feelings of hurting
oneself or others to go to the emergency room immediately,” that was
during a period of time I was considering ending my life. Life just
wasn’t worth living. Only now do I realize the meaning of his words. I
don’t think even he understood the full implication of what he said.
The state has the power to effectively imprison you for wanting out, it
is the ultimate coercive power, the state decides when you die, you
don’t even have control over your own life or death, the state does. It
can decide when, and if, to put you down, but Christ forbid that someone
try to appropriate that power from the state, to achieve the ultimate
bodily autonomy.
Throwing you inside a psychiatric ward just for wanting out, it is the
ultimate coercive power, the ultimate example of the unjust authority
the state wields. It can decide when you die, how you die, but you
can’t. It is illegal for you to take your own life, but not for the
state, for whom nothing is illegal, since it makes and enforces the law.
Call it authoritarian, call it justified, whatever, don’t try to
convince me of your moralistic hogwash, with your fallacious appeals to
emotion.
I am not swayed, I am only swayed by cold, hard fact, and the fact of
the matter is is that the state’s ability to decide whether you live or
die is the ultimate example of authoritarianism there is to be found. I
can be involuntarily committed to a psych ward for wanting out, the
difference between being “lawfully” held captive and being “unlawfully”
held captive is arbitrary, “unlawfully” holding someone captive deprives
the state of the ability to “lawfully” hold someone captive.
What is the difference? I am still in chains, it doesn’t matter to me
whether my captors are acting within the purview of the law or not, they
are my oppressors. Tell me something, muse, why does the state get an
exemption from criminality, but the people do not? Is the state above
the law? “Nobody is above the law,” the liberal says. I say bollocks,
someone has to enforce the law, and in order to enforce the law you have
to be above it.
Liberalism is intellectually dishonest, inconsistent. Statist
libertarianism is intellectually dishonest, inconsistent. Fascism of all
things is more honest than liberalism, for at least the fascist will be
plain with you what he wants, he doesn’t hold any pretenses to the
contrary. The liberal does, however, for they believe it to be “for your
own good,” but does my “own good” entail being held captive, imprisoned,
for wanting to take control over my own life? Foucalt was right.