[Dragaera] OT: Ray Bradbury

[Philip Hart]

On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:

> Philip Hart wrote:
>> A state of course has a monopoly on violence.
>>
> "Claims", possibly; although in most countries ("state" in this
> discussion generally meaning the government of a country) violence is
> allowed as an individual recourse in cases of self-defense, for example,
> so in those cases the state isn't even *claiming* a monopoly.


Oh, they'll loan it out briefly as long as they get it back - and only in 
cases where it's been stolen already.