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You've posed a false dichotomy. No one is talking about a free market in violence. A free market is tightly constrained by social custom, ostracism, and economic forces that are often more powerful than law. Lack of regulation does not make violence any more tolerable.

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A free market is only constrained by the morality of individuals, which as everybody knows can quickly detour from the social custom. Ostracism is never a concern if you have power and/or money. A lack of regulation doesn't make violence more tolerable, but makes it more appealing.

A free market is only constrained by the morality of individuals There is no one who advocates for free markets who advocates against laws. Killing people is murder, hurting them is causing injury, etc...

It's constrained by laws, ethics, and economic forces.

That sentence wasn't in a vacuum, read the parent posts for context.

> A free market is only constrained by the morality of individuals

It really isn't even very constrained by that. It helps if people are generally virtuous, but even an institution where the majority of the people are of good moral character, can display pathological behavior if it's poorly designed.

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