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  3. From: unruh@physics.ubc.ca (William Unruh)
  4. Newsgroups: sci.crypt,comp.org.eff.talk,alt.privacy,talk.politics.guns
  5. Subject: Re: Registering "Assault Keys"
  6. Date: 5 Nov 1992 23:32:33 GMT
  7. Organization: The University of British Columbia
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  14. starr@genie.slhs.udel.edu (Tim Starr) writes:
  15.  
  16. >Not really.  Consent and coercion are opposites; if Switzerland has a high
  17. >degree of consent compared to other countries, then it has a low level of
  18. >coercion by the same standard.
  19.  
  20. Not necessarily, a government can have a high degree of consent by a
  21. large majority, and still be increadibly coercive to a minority.
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