The social arrangements that
produce responsibility are
arrangements that create coercion,
of some sort. Consider bankrobbing.
The man who takes money
from a bank acts as if the bank
were a commons. How do we
prevent such action? Certainly not
by trying to control his behavior
solely by a verbal appeal to his
sense of responsibility. Rather than
rely on propaganda we follow
Frankel’s lead and insist that a bank
is not a commons; we seek the
definite social arrangements that
will keep it from becoming a
commons. That we will thereby