[mrick]

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You seriously can't see the difference between shinning a laser beam at someones house and lighting a candle in your house? Lighting a candle does no damage to your property. A high powered laser beam that destroys your house is obviously coercive and should not be allowed.

[/ QUOTE ]Again, you are going to extremes - and Friedman's piece is, if anything, a plea to libertarians to avoid absolutes and notions of infinite.

E.g. what if the laser beam is NOT destroying your house but is BOTHERING you? It would not bother me, if I were in your place. But it would provoke extreme anger in my uncle if HE were in your place! Friedman argues that limitations are bound to exist, i.e. the notion of an absolute and infinite value of "private property" is ultimately false.