[agitator]

In the absence of damage to somebody else, the only party capable of diminishing your natural rights is a thug or a govt. That being the case, what is missing here is the concept of principal and agent.

Govt is the agent of the individual natural person (see applicable state constitution). When it comes to natural rights, no agent can have any authority that the *individual* didn't have to grant in the first place.

With the exception of the formation of courts and armies, the concept that when a group of individuals band together and shake chicken bones around a fire reciting the incantation - "Compelling State Interest!" - that they magically become possessed of more authority than any single individual had in the first place, is simply a manifestation of socialism.

Now...

If I, as an individual natural person, have no inherent authority to compel another individual natural person to pay me in order to travel by car, how is it my agent in govt. can have that authority?

Oh, wait a minute. Everybody knows driving is a privilege. Nevermind...

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[NMC EXP]

If I, as an individual natural person, have no inherent authority to compel another individual natural person to pay me in order to travel by car, how is it my agent in govt. can have that authority?

You answered your own question:

...the only party capable of diminishing your natural rights is a thug...

But you knew that.

Regards

J.R.