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From: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Re: FORCE, Democracy and Libertarian
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Date: Sun, 27-Jan-85 14:17:08 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan 27 14:17:08 1985
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>No, the world is an anarchy. The definition I use (which may not correspond
>with any other definition) is that a libertarian society has a final
>arbitrater (which we call a government) for disputes between members, but
>an anarchy has no such arbitrater.

Then by your definition, the world of countries is a libertarian
society, not an anarchy.  We DO have a World Court,  whether the US
recognizes it or no;  the World Court is SUPPOSED to act as an
arbitrator.  (Isn't that the function of a court rather than of a
government?)
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Martin Taylor
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