can charge fees, they require all mail boxes be painted pink and all
house be painted black, they can require a traiff but all must agree,
if one person does not agree then the rules, bans and traiff are not
legitamite.--- In [email protected], "Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> This is where your logic fails.
>
> On an island without a government, people can legitimately band
> together to defend rights, but not to violate them. People do have
> the right to determine whether or not someone else will be allowed
to
> sell goods within their combined and/or collective property. This
> means they can grant this power to government. Nobody on an island
> has the right to tell another person what medicines they will or
won't
> take, what weapons they will or won't own, or what religion they
will
> follow. This means they can't grant this power to government.
>
> Tariffs are legitimate. Drug laws, gun laws, abortion laws, and and
> religious laws are not.
>
>
>
>
> --- In [email protected], "Thomas L. Knapp"
> <thomaslknapp@> wrote:
> >
> > Quoth Paul Ireland:
> >
> > > To determine whether any law is legitimate all one must do is
ask what
> > > would happen if you didn't have a government. If there were a
> > > community of people who each owned land and these people agreed
to
> > > protect each other from violence, attacks, etc., they could
also agree
> > > that nobody from outside thier community would be allowed to
sell
> > > goods within the community they own, without paying a fee to
the town
> > > to cover the cost of having police, judges, lawyers, etc. to
ensure
> > > that the business they conduct isn't fraudulent, theft, etc.
> >
> > And they could agree that decapitation is the proper penalty for
> > possession of marijuana.
> >
> > And they could agree that having a handgun merits a prison
sentence.
> >
> > And they could agree that if the guy down the road has a 55-gallon
> > drum in his garage that may have something dangerous, it's okay
for
> > them to go over and burn his house down, just in case.
> >
> > And they could agree that if someone floats, she must be made of
wood,
> > and is therefore a witch, and therefore should be burned.
> >
> > They could agree on any or all of those things. They probably
wouldn't
> > try to portray their claims as "libertarian," though.
> >
> > Tom Knapp
> >
>
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