From: jamesd@echeque.com
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 22:16:04 -0700 (PDT)
To: <cypherpunks@toad.com>
Subject: Re: FCPUNX:Advocating Violence
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At 03:29 PM 4/13/97 -0800, Jim Bell wrote:
> Looked at traditionally, "we" have a
> military because "they" have militaries.  There appears to be no way out of
> this game, and thus in that context militaries could be viewed as a public
> good, or at least a public necessity.  But give the public a relatively easy
> option to exit this game, and that public good becomes a public evil.
> Naturally, it doesn't appear that way to the people who profit from such
> waste:  Government officials and employees, etc.

Area defence is a public good, and therefore can only 
be paid for by charity or by coercion.

Retribution, however is an excludable good.  Therefore it can 
be paid for by normal market mechanisms.
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