3 years ago I asked a political philosopher a question at a talk and in response she told me that you can enforce laws without coercion. What does this mean
Like I specifically see "rules of the road" being used as a metaphor to mean situations like that Like it's not that I'm shaming you to drive down the right side and not the left, or persuading you, or making you feel bad
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My physical presence in my car driving down the right side is itself an incentive for you not to drive on the left side, it physically creates the danger of a disastrous collision But I'm not deliberately seeking you out to punish your for a crime, I don't even know you exist
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We all just passively "vote" for whether the right side or the left side is correct based on our actions, and once one side "wins" it is a law "enforced" very harshly with steep potential penalties, but no one is formally *making* anyone do anything
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