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To: Lane3 who wrote (6538)	12/10/2005 3:48:16 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542154

You already said it didn't matter for your purposes whether the government is legitimate or not--it's extortion either way, so the definition of legitimate is beside the point. Not totally. It may be that be John's definition that I don't consider any government as being legitimate. I can't tell that for sure without knowing his definition. Specifically, what does moral have to do with it. It has the legal right if there's a legally established law that says it does. So what's this about moral right? I don't have a reason why it doesn't as much as I have no reason why it does have such a moral right. Legal right in this context doesn't mean a lot. The government has a legal right to do whatever it decides is legal.