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That doesn’t make sense, unless you meant...

If one governs your rights, you don’t have any.

Freedom isn’t government granting you rights, it’s government protecting you from coercion.

If government is the source of your rights, then government can take those rights away.

If government is the source of protection for your rights, they can only take that protection away. Leaving you your rights and now full burden of protecting them.

Corporations don’t have any power without government, which is why a limited government limits corporate power.



> Corporations don’t have any power without government, which is why a limited government limits corporate power.

They have as much power as they have resources to enforce, which is a lot more than you have, meaning they have a lot more - and in practice all - power.

> If government is the source of protection for your rights, they can only take that protection away. Leaving you your rights and now full burden of protecting them.

A governing body is a collective agreement over what rights and freedoms its members deem fit. If you have none, as you said, you have the full burden of protecting them. Someone else (in the case of n-1 of all people) will always have more resources to protect (or impose on others) their freedoms/rights.

You either end up losing your rights/freedoms, or you establish a coalition with other nearby people, but you won't call it a government, because for some reason that word is bad.


Unless corporations have the right to coerce you (which only government can grant them), they have no power over you.

Walmart is one of the largest corporations around and they have no power over me. I can voluntarily work or shop there, but they can’t force me to do it.


> (which only government can grant them)

You've missed the point, there is no government to grant or revoke anything in this scenario.


> Corporations don’t have any power without government, which is why a limited government limits corporate power.

That's a fairly naive view. Corporations have lots of power, potentially unlimited power, without government. A limited government has a limited ability to protect the people and limit corporate power. We need a strong democratic government, because in the end people are what matters.


No they don’t. Seriously, you watch too many movies.

Corporations have no power over you. You can voluntarily do business with them, but they don’t have the power of coercion.

Please name one instance where a corporation had the power to forcibly coerce someone without the government’s backing.

To be clear, don’t cite voluntarily-entered contractual obligations.


You missed the part about no government apparently. If there is no external force to prevent corporations, any person or organization for that matter, from forcibly coercing people.

to be clear... my comment was only when there isn't a government involved at all, which was the context of the conversation. Thanks!




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