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Proton Magic's avatar

Everyone who takes a vaccine is in "Authority Worship" mode.

Kaiser Basileus's avatar

Authorization is meaningless on its own, it only means someone says it's ok. That has no inherent moral implications of legitimacy or illegitimacy.

Legitimacy comes from actually caring about the best interests of everyone in your jurisdiction, not from authorization.

The real question is of delegation. Obviously illegitimate authority has no rules bc it's merely might makes right. But can legitimate authority be delegated? And the answer is sometimes.

Rights are individual and specific and cannot be delegated, but the power to manage and uphold them is fungible between people who hold them.

Anyone has the right to uphold anyone else's rights and doing so is acting defacto legitimately., whether or not they're authorized. Transfer of power by authorisation is legitimate when the tranferer and transferee only shift the legitimacy they already have, as a management decision from one locus to another. for efficiency.

Authorization without legitimacy is mere tyranny.

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