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> Get rid of consumer protection?  How silly.  Why not get rid of protection
> against murder and theft as well?  There's no ethical difference between
> poking a gun in someone's ribs and taking their money, and deceiving them
> about the nature of their own actions for personal profit.  They are equally
> coercive.

Wrong... The point is that consumer protection can be done by private
industry, whereas law enforcement can't. (Or at least I think so.) All
you need to do to protect people against bad products it to test a lot
of products and put out a newsletter describing your findings. If you
want to do law enforcement you have to do a lot more than that. The
only people who would suffer without government-enforced consumer
protection would be people who are too lazy or stupid to figure out
what they are buying, but that's their tough luck.

	Wayne