# The morality of coercion

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**Created:** [March 28, 2014, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-morality-of-coercion/684730 "2014-03-28T02:05:23Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 8, 2014, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-morality-of-coercion/684730/84 "2014-04-08T13:19:57Z")

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> [@Little\_Nemo](#):
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> “Violence against property”? What a foolish notion. Can you also murder or rape property?
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> I’m not surprised this is a tenet of libertarianism. But the rest of us don’t have to take it seriously.

You own yourself. Violence against the person is violence against property. If you deny self-ownership, then that’s one thing. It’s another thing to neither understand, nor attempt to correct your ignorance of libertarian philosophy and keep spouting the same nonsense in every thread in which libertarianism is discussed.

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