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Paul Turpin wrote
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But what roles do social constraints (social authority, as against
government authority) play in limiting the meaning of voluntariness?
What basis do we have for discussing the distance between "what I
would prefer above all else" and "what I will assent to given the
circumstances"? Surely the second involves a weighing of all sorts of
costs that would generally come under the heading of economic
thinking. Why is not a cost that stems from a government action the
same as any other cost? Or is it simply that it would be an
*additional* cost?
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As Mao Zedong once said: "Political power grows out of the barrel of 
a gun." I've never had a private employer point a gun at me to 
encourage either action or restraint from such.

Samuel Bostaph

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