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In your response, you are assuming your neighbors are trustworthy and are not the ones messing up your way of making a living. I'm not sure how you'd come to trust anyone since your 'political' viewpoint indicates you trust no-one. What makes your neighbor any different from the policeman in the nearest town, the selectman who sits on council or your state legislator? Did you not elect someone you could trust? Did you become involved in the process?

You still haven't aknowledged the idea that it is easier to interrupt trade than it is to carry it out. Also, when I refer to a standard of living, I have in mind the toys we accumulate in our western lifestyle. You seem to be basing your ideas on an agrarian community in which everything is made within walking distance of home. Does everyone know how to make a pencil in your scenario?

I'm sorry Pat. One of us must be living in a parallel universe. Since you declare it's not you, therefore it must be me.

Isn't it funny no one has tried your system of non-government in your world either?

Les