It seems that on this forum there are no minarchists. Everyone is an anarchist. As far as I know most libertarians are minarchists, and most Austrian school adherents are minarchists. So how come there are so few (if any) minarchists on this site?

This is an outrageous claim. Since the dawn of mankind social norms–of all sorts–have been enforced violently. Many unjust acts within a stateless tribe, for instance, have been penalized with death.

Eskimos. I’ve been talking about Eskimos this whole time.

I made a logical claim. Attack my premise. An appeal to history is a waste of both of our time. Oh wait, you’re a Whig. Your entire position rests on appeals to history. Well, good luck with embracing a fundamentally illogical ideology. I’m sure you will have yet another one in a month or two and b…

Oh all-powerful logician of this Internet hideaway, can you please just enlighten me on how I misrepresented Austrian economics first? Afterward, I’ll take your kindly advice to heart and begin purging myself of all historical knowledge (which is wholly useless, of course, when one can master a prio…

How do you know this? I buy health food items that are labeled very explicitly with what they don’t contain and how the product was manufactured. The information I specifically need. The government doesn’t require this sort of labeling and yet the industry does it on their own in response to custom…

Because that’s not their ideology. Libertarians believe in spontaneous order. If the order is social engineerd then it is not spontaneous. Of course libertarians believe that the market to a certain degree compensates for interventionism; if you put up a barrier and the water will flow around it. W…

Minarchists or Anarchists?

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