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I don't know what authoritarian means in this context. My understanding is the government has a monopoly on violence, and when I disobey laws that other people
by chillwaves 10y ago
I don't know what authoritarian means in this context. My understanding is the government has a monopoly on violence, and when I disobey laws that other people pass (through the process of democracy), I will be on the receiving end of government violence. What you call authoritarian is to me what folks call democracy. I also don't understand the distinction for private trade, in that without a functioning government to support a marketplace, such trade would not exist.
- aminok 10y agoDemocracy is how we determine what laws to pass. Universal rights are how we determine if a law is just. Just as we have a universal right to not be enslaved, we have a universal right to not have our private property and privacy violated, and an income or sales tax does both. >I also don't understand the distinction for private trade, in that without a functioning government to support a marketplace, such trade would not exist. Private trade refers to trade amongst exclusively private entities, as opposed to trade amongst several entities, one or more of which are public (government). Your speculation that private trade wouldn't exist without services rendered by government, even if it were accurate, would not disqualify trade amongst private parties as private.