I never said that I would personally use physical coercion, I merely said that a free market cannot prevent physical coercion. Even though you claim that it can.
And please, don’t talk to me like a child.
Yes you did. You know you did…
That is not a free market. In a free market, I can use physical coercion. A free market cannot prevent physical coercion, only laws can do that.
Perhaps you didn’t MEAN it that way, but you said it.
You are right, however, when you say “A free market cannot prevent physical coercion”.
Sure, even in the freest of Free Markets, some low-life may try to force someone to do or not do something. That is why a Free Market needs
objective laws enforced by a limited government.
No individual or private group or private organization has the legal power to initiate the use of physical force against other individuals or groups and to compel them to act against their own voluntary choice. Only a government holds that power.
The nature of governmental action is: ***coercive ***action.
The nature of political power is: the power to force obedience under threat of physical injury—the threat of property expropriation, imprisonment, or death.
Government holds a monopoly on the legal use of physical force. For that reason, its actions have to be rigidly defined, delimited and circumscribed; it should be like an impersonal robot, with the laws as its only motive power. If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
