Responsibility, rights, and obligations.
These were important components of modern society and the state.
Modern states were somewhat like contractual states, founded on mutual agreements, mutual trust, and the credibility of both sides.
Thus, the state had obligations toward ordinary people: granting them certain rights and requiring them to shoulder certain responsibilities.
In the cloze exercise above, "taxation," "security," and "military service" could be filled in, or one could choose the correct answers independently.
Meanwhile, individuals also had obligations, rights, and responsibilities toward the state.
These things complemented one another.
Unfortunately, no modern state had emerged in this world, so everything Leo said was extremely novel, to the point that even Robin found some of it hard to understand.
She parted her lips slightly and asked, "Then why did the former nations fail to provide ordinary people in the Four Seas with even the most basic stable environment, leaving even their basic right to survival unprotected, yet those people were still willing to obey their original kings and the World Government?"
She came from Ohara, a nation of scholars. It was such a poor place that even pirates had no interest in coming. Pirates had no interest in books, and pirates who did have an interest in books would not stir up trouble there, so they had always lived peacefully.
Until the Navy learned that they were researching the secrets of the Poneglyph.
After Ohara was destroyed, she drifted through many countries and met countless people: vicious people and good people, bad people and those who were not quite so bad, pirates, and Marines.
She had been running, hunted, and watching this world all along.
She had gone to many places, leaving behind many deep questions.
Sometimes, she had pushed those questions to the back of her mind—because they were