Re: Questions about Anarcho-capitalism

Hagbard Celine (hagbard@ix.netcom.com)
Thu, 26 Jun 1997 02:36:16 -0400


Hagbard Celine wrote:

> Where there exists a law, there must
> exist coercion, otherwise what is its point? And where there exists
> coercion, there exists something doing the coercing. Whether or not it's
> a person or a piece of paper, it's government pure and simple.

Abraham Moses Genen wrote:

> At the unfortunate risk of being disagreable I have to state that in the
> real world coercion has very little to do with drafting and enacting
> legislation.

What did you think I was saying?

I feel that you have entirely missed my point. Any law/statute -- no
matter how it was achieved -- is not a law unless it is enforced. You
need not be in law school to know that law enforcement is by definition
coercion. Or more simply, "Follow this rule or else!"

-- 
Hagbard Celine

Not a clerk of the nostalgia of the declining ruling class.