Difference between revisions of "Non-Aggression"
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The "non-aggression axiom" is also a glib way of ignoring problems of [[risk]] and [[externalities]]. | The "non-aggression axiom" is also a glib way of ignoring problems of [[risk]] and [[externalities]]. | ||
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| + | The NAP is sometimes presented as: "Don’t hit people, don’t take their stuff. The basic rule of all civilized societies." That may work for Sesame Street, but falls apart as soon as you consider "retaliatory force" and begin to ask why it is their stuff. The whole basic principle of private property in "civilized societies" is "we have stolen this stuff from the commons and will hit you if you disagree." | ||
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