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Old 10-24-2007, 06:54 PM
moorobot moorobot is offline
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Default Re: Anarcho Capitalism take 1million

This is, of course, completely correct. If a person (A) doesn't believe in ACist Property Rights puts up a tent on some property that a guy (B) "mixed his labor with" (or whatever theory of non-positive law property rights acquisition one is using) and B takes out his machine gun and tells A "to get off my property" then B is violently imposing his moral viewpoints on A. The same could be said if A took something that B thought that B owned and gave it to somebody who is less fortunate, and B violently made A give it back.

Hence, it is completely incorrect to say that statism is about "coercion" and AC is about "peace" or "voluntariness". ACism is only a "voluntary society" in a world in which there are no disputes about property rights; but one could say that all political ideologies are voluntary in this way...for example, if everybody agreed with state socialism, then state socialism would be a voluntary society.
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