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People haven't addressed the fact people can sign multiple petitions, and sign petitions for states they don't live in. Both of those seem problematic when tallying support for something.
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Those were just things on Obama's 2008 platform, but less explicit. It seems that the Republican party is less libertarian than the current president if this represents a 'revolution'.
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Another funny thing about the petition is that many of the signers are in different states than the one requesting secession. Probably it is the same people signing each of the petitions rather than thousands from each state.
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"loosen marijuana penalties, legalize undocumented immigrants and pursue a less aggressive American foreign policy." That sounds like a pretty underwhelming 'revolution'.
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Your argument does not prove that it is voluntaristic, but that in your view people are doomed to non-voluntarism. Because involuntarism is beneficial. Hobbesian theory of the state is based on mutual beneficience. But few would say it is voluntaristic. The employment opportunity was created by someone else, for instance, Pizza Hut. You didn't have
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Your employment is created by someone else. And it is predicated on certain obligations, and not choice. Or else it would not be employment. Likewise, being a child was someone else's choice. And it is predicated upon living in the house of that person. Obviously, it would be better to maximize choices in employment to be most desirable to the individual
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Being a parent or child is not voluntary once you have the baby, no matter where in the social ladder it occurs. Parent must do certain work, and the child obeys some amount of authority. Birth is voluntary for parent, and involuntary for child. So it is subject to the same moral rules guiding any other critique of authority. Also, most employment and
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The whole thing is idiotic. Oregon, Colorado, Florida, New York, New Jersey, North Carolina, and Michigan voted for Obama in the election. And yet now they are going to secede? Just because a couple of people want to sign a worthless petition doesn't mean anything.
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The government already defines families in many ways. Christians oppose gay marriage because there is a re-definition, so to speak. I don't know if 'definition of family' is ambiguous or part of the debate. But it seems like an ad hoc rationalization only. And it 'regulates' them: you can't feed your kids paint chips or batteries
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I thought the whole point was that he quit the Arizona Cardinals football team in order to go and fight. He risked pretty much the whole world for that war. So it seems highly likely that he thought it was a good war, at least initially. I don't know if he was disillusioned or not later.