Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site topaz.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!topaz!josh From: josh@topaz.ARPA (J Storrs Hall) Newsgroups: net.politics.theory Subject: Re: Problems with libertarianism. Message-ID: <1854@topaz.ARPA> Date: Wed, 1-May-85 01:16:40 EDT Article-I.D.: topaz.1854 Posted: Wed May 1 01:16:40 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 1-May-85 07:34:11 EDT References: <485@cybvax0.UUCP> <2380007@acf4.UUCP> <515@cybvax0.UUCP> Reply-To: josh@topaz.UUCP (J Storrs Hall) Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 14 >> "Coerce" to "cooperate" -- Huh? > >Did you make out a tax return this year? There is strong coercion to >cooperate this way. Need more examples? > >Mike Huybensz ...decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!cybvax0!mrh Has anyone ever shoved a gun in your face and told you to give him your money? If you did, you were "cooperating" in this sense. I think that when Mike says "coerced cooperation" he really means "coercion" and is just trying to make it sound nicer. --JoSH