>So, the forms of cooperation are two - voluntary and involuntary.
Let me offer an older argument
This Corrective Justice again has two sub-divisions, corresponding to the
two classes of private transactions, those which are voluntary and those
which are involuntary. Examples of voluntary transactions are selling,
buying, lending at interest, pledging, lending without interest, depositing,
letting for hire; these transactions being termed voluntary because they are
voluntarily entered upon. Of involuntary transactions some are furtive, for
instance, theft, adultery, poisoning, procuring, enticement of slaves,
assassination, false witness; others are violent, for instance, assault,
imprisonment, murder, robbery with violence, maiming, abusive language,
contumelious treatment.
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book V (On Justice), 1131a 1 et seq.
> After all, Jack Benny knew that he had a choice when an armed robber
> threatened him with, "Your money or your life!"
Jack Benny apparently knew the meaning of optimization under constraint and
corner(ed) solutions.
Nicholas J. Theocarakis
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