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<DIV style="RIGHT: auto">On Tuesday, September 27, 2011 10:47 PM F. C. Moulton <A href="mailto:moulton@moulton.com">moulton@moulton.com</A> wrote:<BR>> On 09/27/2011 11:55 AM, Adrian Tymes wrote:<BR>>> Then who enforces that law? If no one, anything goes and whoever can take, etc.<BR>><BR>> Yet one more time when I really wish the entire archive of the extropy</DIV>
<DIV style="RIGHT: auto">> email list was online so that a quick pointer could be provided since<BR>> polycentric law and related topics were discussed very early on.<BR></DIV>
<DIV style="RIGHT: auto">And more recently, I've raised some of these issues here and on other lists.</DIV>
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<DIV style="RIGHT: auto">> If people are really interested in these questions then just google</DIV>
<DIV style="RIGHT: auto">> for "polycentric law" and also read the many essays on privately</DIV>
<DIV style="RIGHT: auto">> provided non-government protection services. Of course there</DIV>
<DIV style="RIGHT: auto">> will be many criticisms of these ideas and I am all for criticism of</DIV>
<DIV style="RIGHT: auto">> all ideas. </DIV>
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<DIV style="RIGHT: auto">The literature on this topic is vast and I don't think, contrary to some, that these ideas and issues are going to go away. Surely, there's a certain trendiness at this time to libertarianism, but libertariansim has a longer history and an even longer past than just an American election cycle or two ago.</DIV>
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<DIV style="RIGHT: auto">> What I would suggest is that those making the criticism </DIV>
<DIV style="RIGHT: auto">> also apply the same level and types of criticism to their own pet</DIV>
<DIV style="RIGHT: auto">> ideas.<BR></DIV>
<DIV style="RIGHT: auto">That's true. I always try to avoid double standards in this area. This is why I don't believe a libertarian society will or must be populated with saints and angels while a statist one must be populated with either real world folks or monsters and demons.</DIV>
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<DIV style="RIGHT: auto">Regards,</DIV>
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<DIV style="RIGHT: auto">Dan<VAR id=yui-ie-cursor></VAR></DIV></DIV></div></body></html>