Most examples of people are citizens,members of a state. We don’t have many examples of people in a state of nature to study. That creates some ambiguity between “people aren’t allowed to use coercion” and “citizens aren’t allowed to use coercion”.
Statists would argue that people do have a right to coercion (it’s difficult to control crime without it, for one thing), and that the right is yielded to the state (if you’re in a state).… and that the idea that citizens are not allowed to use coercion emerges from the state monopoly ..which itself emerges from the natural right to use coercion.
Most examples of people are citizens,members of a state. We don’t have many examples of people in a state of nature to study. That creates some ambiguity between “people aren’t allowed to use coercion” and “citizens aren’t allowed to use coercion”.
Statists would argue that people do have a right to coercion (it’s difficult to control crime without it, for one thing), and that the right is yielded to the state (if you’re in a state).… and that the idea that citizens are not allowed to use coercion emerges from the state monopoly ..which itself emerges from the natural right to use coercion.