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RE: A Libertine Question
At 8:13 PM 7/29/96 -0400, Duncan Frissell wrote:
>Perhaps the communitarians in the audience will have to fall back on
>disfellowship as the ultimate sanction (like the early Christians). They
>won't be able to apply any more advanced weaponry.
Just as the ultimate net sanction is excommunication (usually via the ISP,
killfiles etc.), the ultimate communitarian sanction is shunning. Anything
more takes force, and government reserves the use of force to itself.
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