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On Thu, 3 May 2001, James A. Donald wrote:
> > So where is this culture where you can merrily walk off with someone's
> > stuff, or assault someone, without suffering violent consequences,
> > consequences that everyone in the society will regard as legitimate?
At 05:12 PM 5/3/2001 -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
> Anarchy.
In real life approximations to anarchy, such as the wild west, they tended
to hang horse thieves and the like, and everyone regarded that as legitimate.
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