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Old 11-03-2007, 01:54 AM
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Default Re: The government/market distinction depends on a cultural artifact.

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Without this cultural norm for non-violence in the private sector, society would be pure AC.


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Close, but it's the other way around. Without the cultural norm for accepting violence from government agents that you wouldn't accept from normal people you'd have AC.

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Yes! So if free market agents stopped voluntarily refraining from violent resistance, there would no longer be a distinction between "government" and "free market."

Exactly.
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