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Friendly reminder that most libertarians are autistic or ADHD.

It turns out that only people with the ability to hyper fixate are morally outraged by the monopoly on violence.

Everyone else is primarily concerned with the things that are 6 inches in front of their face.

Friendly reminder that governments don’t actually have a monopoly on coercion. Coercion can be present to varying degrees in any contract where one party has limited available alternatives. For example, in the healthcare market, the alternatives available to a customer are sometimes either 1) paying any arbitrary amount of money for a life-saving treatment, or 2) dying.

Compare this to a local government that wants to raise school taxes. You can avoid these if you move a few miles down the road into the next local jurisdiction. I have yet to hear a compelling explanation for how a local government has more coercive pricing controls than a healthcare provider or health insurance company.

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UncleJ 11mo ago

First, the healthcare market is nothing more than a government regulated racket. However, even if it was fully free market and you didn't want to pay somebody to provide their time and services to save your life, that's not their problem. You can't enslave people, even to save your life. And relating this to coercion because somebody won't provide a service to you without you compensating them is just trying to force a definition onto something you don't like.

Second, a local government forcing you to move in order to not pay a tax you don't want to payis coercion. Plain and simple. If you don't pay the tax, they arrest you.

So scenario 1, you don't pay for a service, you don't get it.

Scenario 2, you don't pay for a service you're thrown in jail.