Re: more electoral defeats for the feudalists

On Sat, 25 Nov 2006 15:06:00 +0100, peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
(=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Peter_Bj=F8rn_Perls=F8?=) wrote:

ruetheday@xxxxxxxxxx <ruetheday@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Not really. I'm not sure how anyone could seriously suggest that
government IS society as opposed to an AGENT of society. Clearly there
are members of society who are not members of the government, so the
two cannot be equivalent.

Which is why it is silly to allude that there is anything but the
faintest of connections between the two.

<yawn> Like between a man and his hammer?

From the standpoint that coercian is principally bad, it follows that
government is also bad.

No, of course it doesn't. You could with equal "logic" claim that
from the standpoint that coercion is "principally bad" (whatever that
means), restraining violent lunatics is also bad.

-- Roy L
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