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Every law that the MPs create is itself a threat against the people. A prescriptive law can only be described as "Do what I say, or I will hurt you." Agents of the state create laws, and then take your money and pay that money to men with guns to come after you if you fail to comply.

Law === Threat

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"If you don't do X, I won't do Y"

That is a threat in the broadest sense.

the more useful comparisons are

law != violence || threat of violence threat != violence

unless youre just equivocating the 2 meanings of threat to construct an argument?

So as law isn't equivalent to violence, why is it acceptable to bring violence into it?

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