Re: A prediction about the Presidential campaign

On Feb 6, 3:56�pm, David Friedman <d...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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�Will <mclean1...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On Feb 5, 2:27?pm, David Friedman <d...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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?Will <mclean1...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On Feb 4, 11:44?pm, David Friedman .

By mine, it becomes the government at the point when the people in the
neighborhood start accepting its exactions as normal, rather than as
things to be accepted only when the cost of an act of resistance is very
high.

What about the German Government in occupied Europe during WWII? I
think that most locals considered it morally indistinguishable from a
mugger, but still a government.

What I'm describing isn't a moral evaluation but the pattern of a
commitment strategy.

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The definition breaks down once the government is willing to make the
cost of any resistance very high. Then accepting the exaction becomes
simultaneously normal and accepted only when the cost of resistance is
very high.

That doesn't mean the definition breaks down, just that you can't use
that particular case to test whether or not the organization is a
government.

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If you can't use the the definition to answer the question it tries to
answer, then it isn't a very useful definition. It's not as though
governments that make the cost of resistance very high are exactly
rare.

Will McLean
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