Good point. I think that libertarians tend to conflate the concepts
of coercion and theft, probably because of taxation, which is both.
However, that destroying the property of others without a prior threat
is not coercive makes it no more acceptable.
>coercive force of the current War on Drugs - "stop selling or we'll blow
>your head off."
Certainly if anybody found out that you had destroyed their coca crop,
they would blow _your_ head off, and the law, technology, and all the
transhumans in the world wouldn't be able to save you. (And if they
didn't get you, the CIA would :-) ).
It occurred to me that the US isn't waging a War on Drugs -- it's
waging a Vietnam on Drugs. No wonder they're not winning.
Kennita
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| members of the same family grow up under the same roof.
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