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Final-Fan said:

I do not wish, at the moment, to get more than peripherally involved in the overall debate, but I would like to involve myself on the first point, i.e. voluntary/coercive organizations.

I would like to ask both sides if they are thinking more of corporations or religious cults. Corporations might be arguable, but I would be surprised to hear someone argue that cult-style coercive religious organizations are able to flourish thanks to regulatory capture.

I was specifically thinking both.

I would argue that without state regulation, monopolies and cartels would inevitably form among standard profit-driven corporations and then destroy any emerging opposition.

And we've seen what religion looks like when it has unregulated control over territory.

In fact, when I think about it, the former is probably a bigger danger, because the latter at least always has some kind of set rules everyone can understand, the former can lead to total lawlessness and tyranny.