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It was an attempt at a clarification/reduco add absurdum to his argument regarding how taxes weren't coercive. Taking what I understood his argument to be, and if it was applied consistently, Hitler would have never coerced the Jews either, because Hitler was just applying penalties to enforce...

States, up to the US, will do it to survive though. And most people would probably support it. Or in the case of an occupation, wouldn't have much right to complain. The big issue me and Crom had was over the practical moral question of what kind of reaction people would have to various types...

My understanding, which I believe to be the Orthodox position on such things, is that Coercion is something states do, in fact the right to legitimate coercion is one of the defining features of a state. Being fined for not paying taxes and going to jail for robbery are both examples of...