>if "coercive rules" are imposed from above (by some authority),
>maybe non-coercive rules would be imposed by mutual consent
>(democracy). But that's democracy, not anarchy.
But even democracy needs coercion - if someone breaks a law (a democratically promulgated law), he or she would have to be punished somehow, no? Call me a pessimist incorrigibly corrupted by life under capitalism, but there will always be bad guys.
Doug