Samuel Bostaph wrote: "Society" is not a decisionmaker." Can Sam really believe that? All markets, everywhere, are social constructs. Ownership, liability, "citizenship", exit and entry are all socially constructed. Liberty is a social construct (read English law). There are no economic decisions (choices, behavior, whatever) except in a social context. "Society" may stop short of coercively enforcing decisions (though it often doesn't), but society absolutely and always frames the decisions (choices, behavior) that individuals make (or the behavior which we observe). Fred Carstensen