>obviously, force and threats are bad Dunno about that. Some people don't mind the existence of government to patch some things up. Force and threats are pret

>obviously, force and threats are bad Dunno about that. Some people don't mind the existence of government to patch some things up. Force and threats are pretty useful when trying to fix market failures or tragedy of the commons-type situations. Lack of regulations wouldn't suddenly create free markets because consumers aren't always smart , information isn't perfect, sometimes there are only two producers (so there's pricing influence), etc.