I’m talking about a constitutional republic, not a democracy.
Strawman. I’m talking about a government whose only job is to protect people against the initiation of force and fraud. I find this criticism odd, in that it seems to apply more to Anarcho-Capitalism (If Government = Force, then isn’t Anarchy, by definition a “ban on force”?) than Minarchism.
Honestly, I could go either way (Minarchism, or Anarcho-Capitalism). As long as I get to be more free, it’s all good.
Because I was offended, stressed, and therefore needed to burn off some steam. This appearently set off a flame war between myself and the Anarcho-Capitalists.
By the way, I just realized that I have a bunch of images saved onto my computer that I keep trying to upload into this forum (they’re relavent and are awesome too! [:D]). I tried to add them in my last post using the “add media” button. After much fiddling and waiting trying to get them all added, I only could get one to display (the one about dissent). Now when I try to get added, for some reason it displays a broken page icon, instead of the image. Does anyone know how to get around this?
I’ve just tried renaming them. I’ll see if that works (edit): it didn’t…Fuck…If anyone knows a way around this, please post it here, or message me. X_X
That sir depends on the State you live in, and your record…
I consider the fall of the American Republic with the Civil War… not 1976…
The US fell a long time ago
How many invasions have we had to deal with??? Historical record shows even at our weakest (Reconstruction Era) we managed to remain unattractive as a target…
Show me one that lasted more than a century and you might have a point, until then, your constitutional republic is a flawed concept as it allows the Government to dictate the rules it follows, if I make my own rules and everyone else has to obey arbitrary ones I dictate to them, why am I an evil ruler, and the government (which does the same thing), in a Con Rep, a good thing???
Utopian if you think it will end its power there, it will use that principle (Like Dems and Public Welfare / Reps and National Security) to be just as oppressive and eventually further that what we have today (as this system will be)…
Well your comparison is off…
Government = Force
Minarchism = Force
Anarchism = Not Force
It is not a “ban on force” as you say, but has no authority that is legitimized in using force, Government’s ban force all the time, just not banning themselves from the use of force, just us peons, from using it on them…
And if it works for a group like PETA, then why not? XD
