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Letting someone starve is aggression. If you have to work for minimum wage because the alternative is homelessness, isn't that also a form of coercion?

> What happens if you don't pay?

You get charged interest. Then, you might have your wages garnished. If that isn't sufficient, your bank accounts might get frozen. If that still isn't sufficient, liens.

This is true for any enforcement of laws though?

That statement is precisely one of the tenets of anarchy. I think the philosophy as a whole has issues, but it's hard to argue with that premise.

I wasn't aware of that; I don't consider myself an anarchist really. I just think it's more like what Heinlein wrote, that violence is the supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived. I'm not sure I like it but I do think it's rather true. Almost everything can be traced back to some form of this.

Note the 'almost'. I'm sure some outliers exist but that's not what we're talking about.