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Nozick on Utopia

Talking Politics: HISTORY OF IDEAS

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The Protection Association Is a Mafia - It's Not Just a Protection Racket

Nozick says if an association needs people to join in order to provide protection, it has to compensate them for their rights. How would it compensate these people by giving them protection for free? What it could do is say, all right, we accept that you don't have to join. We're going to make you join, which means we've breached your rights, but we're going to made it up to you by not making you pay the fees. That compensation move does look a little bit like a sleight of hand. But what Nozick wants us to take from this is not really that he's come up with a clever way of justifying the existence of states, but

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