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Old 11-03-2007, 01:19 AM
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Default Re: The government/market distinction depends on a cultural artifact.

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But given this new information, I don't understand how textbook AC claims to be viable outside a utopia. Won't there always be a significant minority of people who are happy to do as much violent coercion as they can get away with?

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Yes. But this doesn't mean a utopia is required.

Those people also exist under a state. They don't magically stop liking violent coercion just because someone flips the statism switch.

If there are more than some critical number of these people, everyone else is basically [censored] *no matter how they organize*.
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