Quote from: Riniojet on August 21, 2015, 04:47:33 PM

Irrespective of its economic effects, it's coercive. It obstructs voluntary association. I am therefore opposed to it.

The biological realities of the maintenance of one's existence (e.g., a need of food and potable water) and the failure to provide therefor (e.g., starvation and dehydration unto death) are also "coercive" (Riniojet). However, in the case of natural "coerc[ion]" (Riniojet), one, such as the solitary earth human, does not have a means to effect any meaningful impact thereupon, so, instead, it will move unto those "coerc[ions]" (Riniojet) that it can, itself, "coerc[e]" (Riniojet) (e.g., "the minimum wage" [KriszDev]).

Quote from: David Konstan, Epicurus, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2014

[Epicurus] regarded the unacknowledged fear of death and punishment as the primary cause of anxiety among human beings, and anxiety in turn as the source of extreme and irrational desires.