can there be a free market and government?

[John_James]

@cab21

i think the monopoly comment came from ayn rand’s minarchy where she says a government having a monopoly on the use of force.

shrug Either way, minarchy is minarchy (despite what our resident minarchist would like to have you believe).

i’m not sure if she would or would not include the 2nd amendment. perhaps it’s that there would be limits to self defence of self defence and relaliation would come from the state and not individuals with her philosophy/ although she does not seem to write it out well. the most i can find is rand saying ideas, not guns, are required to protect people ultimatly.

Rand loved the Constitution. So I wouldn’t be surprised if she would support the amendment. Hell…at times it seems like she’d support it no matter what it said.

But again I’m not really sure why any of this is relevant or what it has to do with what we’re discussing here.

i think if there is a government, it’s use of force would have to have separate catagories from what is allowed for private force and the government would be able to do things that a citizen could not. people could own the same weapons state or nonstate, but the authorization of use would be different.

You mean like how it is in every geographical area governed by a state?

right now i would consider government a not-free society, so trying to see if there was a way it could be free market was the challange.

Like most of us here have said, there isn’t. It’s a contradiction.