I was using an ellipsis, which, if I am not mistaken, is used in writing to signify an intentional ommission. You also did not specify that it was simply your belief. You only mentioned that you were saying what anarchist detractors were saying. And even if it is your belief, is it that absurd to ask you to justify your beliefs in an academic forum?
The Kapauku Papuans of the 20th century. Anglo-saxons in Britain during the Dark Ages. High Middle Ages/Rennaissance merchants under the Law Merchant in international arenas.
All of these are actually from a single book, The Enterprise of Law, by Bruce Benson. Its a great read actually. I would recommend it to all AnCaps and even to trollish Keynesians.
It would be an Appeal to Tradition (logical fallacy) to assume that because political domination is par for the course for humanity today that it has always been so. Paleolithic societies were not organized along the same lines that modern societies are. The strongest or the wisest may have been a de facto leader, but this does not necessarily mean they wielded unlimited power. There is strong evidence that these leaders were merely the first among equals. Also, nobody was forced to work or do anything at spearpoint. Its most likely that all recognized that only by working together would they survive, and out of their own self interest, aided the group.
You were quoted accurately before. You may feel it was taken out of context. I can’t admit that its your belief, because I would have to know for certain if it was. Only you have that knowledge.
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Outside of these forums you might be able to get away with this, but here, where anarchist principles are clearly defined, you are committing an equivocation. You know full well that anarcho-capitalists here don’t condone eating and raping babies. You are equating the “anarchy” advocated by anarcho-capitalists with the “anarchy” of mainstream opinion (i.e. complete and utter chaos). Furthermore, you know better.
It was devolving into a bitchfest again, and the decision has been made for bitchfests to be cut off as soon as possible. The quickest method to get the attention of everyone is to lock the thread. And it will happen every time a bitchfest happens. Capisce?
This doesn’t really make sense as the action is the means. Perhaps you mean: “Every conscious action an actor takes is thought to be the easiest way to acheive their desired ends.”
In which case I would say your ammendment is wholly redundant.
Fine, but now you’re simply describing how government agents act.
If there was only one well armed PDA, this would be true. But if you oppose this monopoly on force, what makes the US government any better?
Oh I know! I pissed myself into a coma when I found out there was an anarcho-baby eater under my bed.