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Re:How Vienna produced ideas that shaped the West by dmichulke on Friday December 30, 2016 @11:03AM (#13284977)
So "elected by 50%+" means absence of coercion?
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Re:How Vienna produced ideas that shaped the West by holri on Friday December 30, 2016 @11:14AM (#13285054)
yes that is how democracy works.
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Re:How Vienna produced ideas that shaped the West by maverick_iceman on Friday December 30, 2016 @01:16PM (#13286007)
Ah, so minority rights don't matter any more? By your standards even Hitler was democratically elected. That doesn't make his actions moral.
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Re:How Vienna produced ideas that shaped the West by holri on Friday December 30, 2016 @01:44PM (#13286213)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law
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Re:How Vienna produced ideas that shaped the West by IvarTheHomeless on Saturday December 31, 2016 @06:30PM (#13293761)
Hitler was appointed, not elected.
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Re:How Vienna produced ideas that shaped the West by dmichulke on Saturday December 31, 2016 @02:16AM (#13289969)
Coercion is entirely orthogonal to any form of state.

In practice, all forms of state use coercion. Try resisting arrest by the police for a crime you are suspect but didn't commit.

There are much worse examples that polarize much more.

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Re:How Vienna produced ideas that shaped the West by sangnoir on Saturday December 31, 2016 @03:29PM (#13292986)
How can individual's rights and possessions be protected without coercion? These are fundamental to any society.

Empirically, when the state is dissolved, it is quickly replaced by equally coercive (or worse) warlords.

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