> Just because a transaction wasn't made at gunpoint, doesn't mean it wasn't coerced, or that one party wasn't duped into it through scam/advertising.
Of course coercion doesn't have to be at gunpoint. That doesn't mean "coercion" is not a reasonably well-defined term. Similarly, giving someone false information to induce them to buy something you're selling isn't a free market, it's fraud.
That said, I agree that the definition of "voluntary" has to be made with care. I said basically the same thing in the second paragraph of the post you responded to.
Of course coercion doesn't have to be at gunpoint. That doesn't mean "coercion" is not a reasonably well-defined term. Similarly, giving someone false information to induce them to buy something you're selling isn't a free market, it's fraud.
That said, I agree that the definition of "voluntary" has to be made with care. I said basically the same thing in the second paragraph of the post you responded to.