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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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To: steve-b

Still, a murderer is coerced — rightly — from doing more murdering. The questin is not whether a law coerces but does the coercion improve things for the common good, - as I said in the post you are responding to.


30 posted on 02/23/2009 11:14:53 AM PST by annalex (http://www.catecheticsonline.com/CatenaAurea.php)
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