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Widespread black markets, for drugs, betting, etc., suggest otherwise.

At 02:06 AM 4/16/2001 +0300, Sampo Syreeni wrote:

That doesn't really kill the argumetn. The key word is enforceable. Black markets do it directly by guns,

While personal violence is an essential part of operating in a black market, nonetheless participants tend to think in terms of "people like me", and people who are trash. If a deal goes bad with someone who is trash, one breaks some part of him, or arrange to have it broken. If a deal goes bad with someone like oneself, one has a talk with him. If the talk is unsatisfactory, one lets it be known he is not really one of us. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG q/Tee57K9yJNi1c0GkFisR7E9AFdjtOf5cARkkla 4PSTolvgMyi8+KVJr0ow2/YV2LBuqHJH5F6zPODAG ----------------------------------------------------- We have the right to defend ourselves and our property, because of the kind of animals that we are. True law derives from this right, not from the arbitrary power of the omnipotent state. http://www.jim.com/jamesd/ James A. Donald