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   XPost: alt.anarchism.communist, alt.politics   
   From: david@block.net   
      
   On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 14:43:37 -0700 (PDT), spiritual matter   
    wrote:   
      
   >This is one of the reasons I don't believe in government.   
   >   
   >Government is a coercive institution. Governments coercively imprison   
   >and confine people who are believed to be mentally ill in psychiatric   
   >hospitals (you can read more about involuntary commitment   
   >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychiatric_hospital).   
   >   
   >Without government, wage labor and money could not exist either   
   >because government is the institution which defends and supports these   
   >coercive systems.   
      
   Good.  Without them things would be very bad.   
      
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