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		Ancapistani on Nov 23, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: LPD: Libertarian Police Department (2014) I was only being trite. From memory, a government is a political entity with three distinguishing characteristics: `* it claims a physical territory * it claims a monopoly on the legitimate initiation of force * it claims the moral right to levy taxes`

Eisenstein on Nov 23, 2022 [–]

I was referring to the free market. If the free market creates a government, then you have redefined free market to mean government when it was created by the market forces.

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