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The argument of R. Nozick (Anarchy, State, and Utopia, New York: Basic Books, 1975) that only a state limited to protection against coercion is justifiable, is flawed by Nozick's failure to articulate the substantive laws which the state may enforce. In fact, it is not valid to legitimatize the state by its enforcement of law; rather, law is legitimized by being created by the state, when the state is legitimate. The state's role cannot be limited to remedying acknowledged injuries, but must include determining what is, & what is not an injury. A state which has such powers of discretion cannot be limited in that sense; what is central to legitimacy, rather, is putting control in the proper hands. The people must play a role in deciding what the state's powers will be. The proper procedure is to derive from the state's legitimacy the brakes on its power which must exist for it to remain legitimate. W. H. Stoddard.

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Aircraft accident research has revealed a relationship between injury to the occupants and damage to the aircraft structure. The present study explores the possibility that judgments of damage are affected by knowledge of injury. Thirty-six male subjects estimated aircraft damage from 36 photographs of aircraft accidents. In connection with each photograph the subjects were provided with fictitious injury (as well as other) information. Accident photographs, subjects and injury levels were appropriately counterbalanced. The major hypothesis was supported. Accident-involved aircraft were given higher damage ratings when the photographs were presented with higher injury levels than when the same photographs were presented with lower injury levels. Suggestions are made for overcoming this bias which exists in the laboratory and which may exist in the field.