Hasnas is not saying you can pull the coercive part out and the rest tastes better. He says the opposite up front:
“Although this depoliticized law is inherently coercive, it is not inherently a vehicle for domination.”
And:
“those subject to law are indeed bound, but not by the will of any particular human beings.”
Mindset and education matter. They always do. They do not answer the question he actually asks: once people are living together and conflicts have to be settled, is the settlement the product of
“human action, but not the execution of any human design,”
or is it the output of people who hold the machinery of the state?
He defines political as
“anything that is concerned with the effort to gain control of the machinery of the state or that is the consciously created output of that machinery. Everything else will be considered non-political.”
Changing what we teach does not make a statute stop being someone’s command.
Hasnas is not saying you can pull the coercive part out and the rest tastes better. He says the opposite up front:
And:
Mindset and education matter. They always do. They do not answer the question he actually asks: once people are living together and conflicts have to be settled, is the settlement the product of
or is it the output of people who hold the machinery of the state?
He defines political as
Changing what we teach does not make a statute stop being someone’s command.