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Comment author: fubarobfusco 11 November 2014 06:15:50PM 0 points [-]

Reading anarcho-capitalistic literature I learned to look at governments in a different way, talking about a monopoly on violence owned either privately as in a monarchy or publically in a democracy and the consequences the authors draws from that.

By the way, this idea doesn't originate with anarcho-capitalists. It's from Max Weber, one of the founders of sociology.

Comment author: Metus 11 November 2014 07:44:01PM 0 points [-]

I know, but the question was where this occured. Nearly no point originates with the person you hear it from or the school of thought. David Allen's insights in productivity derive from other people and Jaynes' views on probability theory in turn derive from thinkers before him.

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