Plus you can have theft without any force at all. You’re on the way back from the store and put your bread down for a second while you grab bus fare, and I run by and grab it. Finders keepers, right? Because anything you do to get it back at this point is probably going to involve initiation of force, and if stupendousman is against redefining the term to include general damage to a person’s situation, he can’t possibly think force is appropriate in response to me taking bread off the ground.
I’m afraid that except for the vague and incomplete non-aggression principle, I missed that. Where do you think the rules that create markets come from, and what enforces them?
As a standard example I offer the Scandinavian countries. If you don’t think they have a high quality of life by any reasonable standard, or that the government hasn’t had a major role in creating that, you simply don’t know much about them. Which, as I said, means I will not be able to take your position seriously.
