Every society requires laws and enforcement mechanisms (police, courts); anarchism is both undesirable and impossible; the rational question is not whether coercion exists but which coercion is rationally legitimate.

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there's no society that doesn't have policemen only anarchists would approve of something like that

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Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition - Part 6 - Habermas' Critical TheoryMichael Sugrue
Created: 8/10/2026, 11:16:47 PM

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