Anarchy is not heartless

[Inquisitor]

We are already living in a anarcho-capitalist society.

Not really.

Imagine that all 200 countries are corporations. Anarcho-capitalism would lead to wars between these corporations.

Non sequitur. Countries are not corporations, nor will they ever be. They are monopolies on force. Their funds are acquired coercively. War is not profitable without taxation to externalize its costs.

Our national defense is democratically controlled.

In name.

Therefore there is no abuse of power.

By what standard?

Private defense is coercive. Coercion leads to monopolies. Therefore, private defense will lead to monopolies. Then, the private defense monopoly can use coercion to dictate its peoples. It is equivalent to a military dictatorship.

Again, non sequitur. This stems from seeing firms as countries. They are not. Your above critique applies to states; not to firms.

[leonidia]

@libertarian

We are already living in a anarcho-capitalist society.

No. Not even close.

@libertarian

Imagine that all 200 countries are corporations. Anarcho-capitalism would lead to wars between these corporations.

It does not follow that corporations would go to war with each other just because states do. The two are entirely different entities.

@libertarian

Our national defense is democratically controlled. Therefore there is no abuse of power.

Really?

@libertarian

Private defense is coercive.

No it’s not. It’s defensive. Coercion implies initiating agression. Defense is a response to agression. The rest of your argument doesn’t follow.

[Trianglechoke7]

Whoa, whoa, no way we live in an anarcho-capitalist society. Obviously, we have a government so there’s nothing anarchist about us in any way, shape, or form.

[Bostwick]

@libertarian

Our national defense is democratically controlled. Therefore there is no abuse of power.

Ha Ha Ha!

[SirJDKnightCroix]

Everything to an extent is done with self-interest. Even religion. Why are profoundly religous individuals and groups doing charitable and good deeds and whatnot? It’s because they’ve been promised to be rewarded with heaven in the afterlife. There is something being exchanged for something.

[libertarian]

@Brainpolice

rolls eyes

Even asuming that one defense agency tries to take over the others, do you not think that the others will have an incentive to band together to take the “rogue PDA” out? And since when is our “national defense” controlled by everyone, as if we have some kind of direct/participatory military democracy? The current military consists of collusion between government and particular private groups. It is not controlled by “the people” at all, and “the people” are forced to pay for it. That is true coercion.

What if an entrepreneur owns a nuclear weapon? What if the wealthy owns all the weapons? What if upset people began a revolution like a communist revolution? What if some other country incrementally conquers our anarcho-capitalist society?

[Stranger]

@libertarian

@Brainpolice

rolls eyes

Even asuming that one defense agency tries to take over the others, do you not think that the others will have an incentive to band together to take the “rogue PDA” out? And since when is our “national defense” controlled by everyone, as if we have some kind of direct/participatory military democracy? The current military consists of collusion between government and particular private groups. It is not controlled by “the people” at all, and “the people” are forced to pay for it. That is true coercion.

What if an entrepreneur owns a nuclear weapon? What if the wealthy owns all the weapons? What if upset people began a revolution like a communist revolution? What if some other country incrementally conquers our anarcho-capitalist society?

Why would any of this happen?