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@Cushman History has shown pretty clearly that governments on the more-coercive side of the spectrum have caused more death and destruction than those on the le
by stevesearer 14y ago
@Cushman History has shown pretty clearly that governments on the more-coercive side of the spectrum have caused more death and destruction than those on the less-coercive side.
A government coercing dollars out of a population by force and a society that is based on using products produced by people other than themselves are two different things altogether.
- Cushman 14y ago> History has shown pretty clearly that governments on the more-coercive side of the spectrum have caused more death and destruction than those on the less-coercive side. I'm not seeing it. Absent governments in the third world cause quite a bit of death and destruction every year. > A government coercing dollars out of a population by force and a society that is based on using products produced by people other than themselves are two different things altogether. Until somebody steals something. Then you've got two options: Either you let them take it, in which case you're communist and don't have property, or you chase them down and make them give it back, in which case you're a despot and every transaction made is only made with your implicit consent. There ain't no free enterprise.