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Subject: Re: Ok, so what is socialism? Re: Down with Democracy!
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Date: Fri, 6-Mar-87 01:07:41 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar  6 01:07:41 1987
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In article <184@arcsun.UUCP> rob@arcsun.UUCP (Rob Aitken) writes:
>> build a bypass around it, there are lots of non-violent ways to get you to
>> agree.  These include things ranging from paying you a large price to the
>> total exclusion of you from commercial society.
>  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>That sounds suspiciously like coercion to me.

It does sound like it, but it isn't quite.  It's an extreme, and the closest
thing to coercion that a free society has.  Most libertarians don't like the
use of this technique, but it is still a couple of orders of magnitude
different from putting people in jail if they don't cooperate.
-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. - Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473