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Responsibility is a concept that our "friends" from the LCC are using a lot these days. They keep saying that the government and the politician are responsible for the people. While no one is dismissing that the state is responsible to the needs and the interest of the community; however, their use and understanding of responsibility is one dimensional and in the end fundamentally flawed.

Responsibility is not one directional but complex and multifaceted relationship system that is not a sole state burden but a burden for all in that community. If we look at any relationship like that of friends for example, both friends have responsibility towards each other. Friendship is base on trust and loyalty and my responsibility to my friends suggest that I do not betray their trust and confidence. This is true for all types of relationships for any type of relationships is base on responsibilities be it positive responsibilities which I am responsible for something like as a supreme court justice, I am responsible to be objective. As a supreme court justice have negative responsibilities like I am responsible not to abuse the legal system for personal gains etc. But regardless of the responsibility being in a community places responsibility to the individual.

"...ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. " ~JFK

The LCC's problem is that they only place the responsibility on the state and people who do not support their ideology as elites. They complained that the state is not responsible to the people and is writing off eBE as an unjust state. While not dealing with the ethics of the state for that is certainly a topic that many can write huge articles about, but how did the state failed its responsibility to the people? Because they do not support the LCC ideals of anarchism? But more importantly, what about the LCC member's responsibility towards the community? I can say they failed in their responsibility to our community and the state.

Lin0lum in a comment of my Soft Power article commented the following : "Following the rules of the elite is important for some minions and for the elite itself." It is extremely problematic that he writes off the rules and laws of the community as the rules of the elites and those who do follow the rules and laws as mindless minions. (Lin0's Mitt Romney's 47 percent moment) This comment greatly symbolize their total lack of interest and a lack of responsibility to the community for they just write them off totally. But let us look into the rules that "benefits the elites." The LCC constantly violate the immigration laws of this find land. As citizens we are responsible not just for oneself but that of our neighbors as well. The purpose of the immigration law is to prevent PTOs and other threats. While the LCC claims it is a freedom issue and to deny them this freedom, the state is not being responsible to the "people," they are wrong. Freedom should not and does not infringe on the well being of others. The state and the citizens have a combined responsibility to maintain security for the community and that is why they acted in an united effort to eliminate the LCC as a party.

Citizenship is a contract. No one forces you to be eBelgian or eAnything. Each country have different rules and traditions. When you move to a new country, and a new CS, you are signing a contract that you agree to be in that community and to take up the responsibilities of that country. For you do not have to be eBelgian, eAmerican, eGerman etc, you can always move or go back to Greece etc, but by declaring eBelgian or eOtherCountry, you signed up and agree to that country's social contract ie their constitution and traditions. If you want to change the system, one needs to act within the social system as it is the individual's responsibility to act within the socially accessible means like congress or the courts to evoke the policy change one wants. Failure to obtain the changes that one wants does not give you the right to ignore their responsibility. The LCC does not like the immigration as well as other parts of the society, fine. I have issues with some aspects of the community. I am sure everyone has issues they want to change but do you see others ignoring and even violating their responsibility towards their neighbors, brothers and sisters? Use the democratic system. And if you really are so outraged and disgruntled with the social contract of eBE, you can always move to a country with a social contract that is more suited for you.

But let's get something straight here, the state did not fail in their responsibility but it is the LCC that is not responsible to the community with first the G50 and later the Greek PTO's. The LCC are not underdogs or victims of "the elite" but offenders that violated their responsibility when they acted against the social contract of this land.

Responsibility goes both ways. The state has its responsibilities but so does the individual. This is not as slavery or oppression. This is the very aspect of what a community is. For if there is no responsibility at all, what is the purpose of any community? If one does what s/he wants with no regards at all, the community does not exist. We would be in Rousseau's State of Nature and would lack the structural dynamics of that of wolves and lions. Since no one can be an island alone, mankind discovered the benefits of working and being with each other. The concept of community and responsibility was form not to create slavery or oppress the fellow man, but to progress man itself. While man cannot be 100 percent free in the Rousseauian notion of the State of Nature but it is for the greater good and greater interest. But in the end, it is the community as well as the state's responsibility to safe guard the interest and wellbeing of the country and that responsibility is not a one way street. For this is the meaning of citizenship; regardless of your rank and post, we share a common interest and responsibility
that defines who we are.