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From: mwm@ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Re: FORCE, Democracy and Libertarian
Message-ID: <690@ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 31-Jan-85 00:07:48 EST
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Reply-To: mwm@ucbtopaz.UUCP (Praiser of Bob)
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In article <1337@dciem.UUCP> mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor) writes:
>>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?)
>{uw-beaver,qucis,watmath}!utcsrgv!dciem!mmt

Oops. You're right. I should have stated that the arbitrater also has the
power to back up it's decisions. Since the US ignores the World Court, it
obviously doesn't have that power.

	<mike