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Originally Posted by jammies
Why not? That's what I never understood about this "theory" - people that AREN'T born in Canada and who enter its sovereign territory are subject to Canadian law, so why would being born here get you some kind of exemption? It has nothing to do with "agreeing" to the laws of the nation, it has to do with that nation imposing its laws upon you within its territorial limits by force.
It might seem tyrannical, but really how else are things going to work? Law is ultimately upheld by violence, and the idea that "freemen on the land" can opt of a contract is flawed at its root because of this. The government doesn't care if you agree with the social contract, you either obey or suffer the consequences. In Canada, complying with the law and that contract isn't particularly onerous or oppressive, but that doesn't mean that you can ignore it when it's convenient for you to do so without the State bringing you back into compliance by any means it feels necessary.
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Which for some of them is basically their point; it's not something they agreed to but something that is enforced on them, so they see it as some kind of emancipation or something.
I agree with what most of you are saying, they really don't have the courage of their convictions since they still reap the benefits of society, but I wasn't really thinking of it from that point of view.
More just a philosophical thing.