Jim Choate wrote:
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Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 17:36:49 -0500 From: Bill Stewart
Subject: RE: dbts: Privacy Fetishes, Perfect Competition, and the (fwd) Just because you don't have a social institution that announces that it has the job of killing anybody who competes with it or fails to obey its proclamations of the will of the majority doesn't mean you don't have social institutions.
Nobody claimed that Bill, straw-man.
Now wait a minute, which side was it that said that an "anarchistic society" was an oxymoron? You know, that we can't have a society without a state? The state is nothing but an organization which kills anyone who doesn't obey its will (however that will is determined, or however many orders it will give you before disobedience is fatal). By saying this, you *are* saying that it is necessary to "have a social institution that announces that it has the job of killing anybody who competes with it or fails to obey its proclamations of the will of the majority" in order to have *any* social institutions (i.e., to have a society). *We* weren't the ones who raised that strawman. ;)
Explain how it works, it's that simple (and repeated for about the umpteenth time).
We have, haven't you been listening? Michael Hohensee