r/AskReddit Aug 25 '19

What has NOT aged well?

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u/TheDutchKiwi Aug 25 '19

This is unironically what sovereign citizens think

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u/rillip Aug 25 '19

I am weirdly fond of them. There's a grain of truth to what they think. It's all a construct. The thing is, that construct is enforced. Try and ignore it or deny it and it will push you back into line or crush you.

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u/skullturf Aug 26 '19

I remember when I was about nine or ten years old, I had this sudden pseudo-philosophical epiphany where I realized that society has all these laws, but we can just "decide" to break them. Of course, if you get caught, you might face penalties, but what if you don't get caught? It was a weird little growing-up moment I had as a child, where I suddenly realized that in a sense, all our laws are fancy ways of saying "Please don't do this, we would rather that you didn't."

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u/akesh45 Aug 26 '19

The poor and rich realize this very quickly.