But isn’t fraud also theft because after the ”trade” the objects witch rightfully belong to you because of that trade are held back by force.

If someone sells you something witch they claim to be a soda pop but is not are they not withholding an actual soda pop from you?

The crux of my rebuttal is your equivocation on freedom and control. They are not the same. From my post:
“Man is free by nature. He does not control his own life in the same sense. For example, I do not control whether I get to keep my job. If my employer decides to fire me, is he causing me to lose my control? I do not control my immediate emotions. If a stranger abuses me verbally and I get angry, is he causing me to lose my control? In both these cases I retain my freedom but do I lose my control or did I never have it?”

No, they didn’t teach me how to write like that in law school. I’m not sure that anyone rightly deserves the blame for the way that I write, except myself. ;-)

Cheers,

Paul

“Control necessarily implies consent. Agreement procured with false or arbitrary claims is essentially equivalent to agreement procured at the point of a gun: agreement, in such cases, is not consent. In respect of attempts to deprive someone of control over his life, liberty or property, the effect of false or arbitrary claims is the same as the effect of coercive physical force: to obviate consent.”

This comment is not related to this article but I was not sure how to submit a general question to you. My question concerns voting in the federal election – in my riding, there does not seem to be a single party that I can in good conscience vote for.

I seem to recall reading somewhere (maybe even your blog) that there is a way to register a protest vote or blank vote that will not be counted as a spoiled ballot. I don’t expect to find such information on the Elections Canada web site, but can you provide any guidance?

Thanks for the help.

Amlan