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To: steve-b

That puts a bracket on what laws are good laws, but it does not exclude coercion altogether. Any law is by definition coercion. The current system is such that law is something that comes from the state, so in that sense any law is also “statist”, although I would agree that almost any form of customary law is better compared to what we have.


26 posted on 02/09/2009 10:16:33 AM PST by annalex (http://www.catecheticsonline.com/CatenaAurea.php)
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To: annalex
Any law is by definition coercion.

Nonsense. A law against assault, for example, is not "coercion" -- self-defense is not coercive, but rather the exercise of a natural right, and making it a matter of law is simply delegation to the state as one's agent for exercising that right.

29 posted on 02/21/2009 8:38:35 AM PST by steve-b (Intelligent design is to evolutionary biology what socialism is to free-market economics.)
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