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From: orb@whuxl.UUCP (SEVENER)
Newsgroups: net.politics.theory
Subject: Re: Re: Problems with libertarianism.:"coercion" re to jj
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Date: Wed, 1-May-85 17:53:05 EDT
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> 
> >> "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

Have you ever been almost killed by somebody running a red light or
other such acts of highway lunacy?
 
That is "noncooperation".  Without the coercion of the police to restrain
people this would be the normal state of affairs.
 
         tim sevener    whuxl!orb