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Old 06-19-2007, 06:08 PM
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Default Re: The difference between being coerced and coercing

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Yet in this case, the criminal has no right to interact with other people against their will. People do have a right not to be stabbed by other people.

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But if the criminal owns no property at all (other than himself) and no one who owns property will allow him reside on their territory or interact with him, that person has been deemed by the others to have no right to live there.

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Yes, but this is the problem - up until the moment where he finds someone to allow him on their property, he does not have a right to live at all under the moral code. This is disturbing to me because it associates your right to exist with the (perhaps arbitrary) approval of others.

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Again, the alternative is either he forces others to provide for him or someone else does. If we're trying to minimize coercion, this alternative seems like a poor way to do so.