Authorities provide reasons for belief and action because they have a certain superior standing.


“The claim "hate speech is not free speech" implies "free" is a type of speech, as opposed to how speech is treated in a free society.”
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“The black flag comes in many colors.”
― The Anarchist Handbook
― The Anarchist Handbook

“Government is an extremely prominent and fundamental feature of the structure of our society. We know that people tend to have a powerful bias in favor of the existing arrangements of their own societies. It therefore stands to reason that, whether or not any government were legitimate, most of us would have a strong tendency to believe that some governments are legitimate, especially our own and others like it.”
― The Problem of Political Authority: An Examination of the Right to Coerce and the Duty to Obey
― The Problem of Political Authority: An Examination of the Right to Coerce and the Duty to Obey
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