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Probably. I just don't support the use of a coercive government to be responsible for resolving those things.
by burntsushi 6y ago
Probably. I just don't support the use of a coercive government to be responsible for resolving those things.
- was8309 6y agoAren't all agreements enforced via coercion? either via the law/government or personally (which can be much worse)
- burntsushi 6y agoNo, not all. Or at least, no, I don't see it that way. But this is getting deep into the weeds of semantics. The key is that coercion is typically defined to mean the initiation of some kind of physical aggression (or threat of it). I'd recommend Stephan Kinsella's "Against Intellectual Property" if you want a more philosophical take on it. But beware, he is a student of an unorthodox branch of economics, so depending on your flexibility, you may or may not dismiss it immediately as nutty mumbo jumbo. I think the important bit here is that my outlook does not require such an obvious inconsistency.