Hello all, I’ve read books by Hayek and Mises from cover to cover and underlined the parts I liked best (there were many), but honestly, there are many aspects of right-wing libertarianism which frankly baffle me. It’s not so much that I agree or disagree, it’s that I’m not sure I understand the ar…

I don’t really understand what you are getting at. You think pulling a trigger is hard? Or do you think everyone will have body guards? Because how is a protection service going to be any better than the cops of today? Would you rather wait for someone to get there to help you out, or would you rat…

I can’t do it while standing on my head so don’t ask.[:P] I hope you know it was nothing personal, but at least you saw what I saw in that demonstration of the OP.

A gun is useful for suppressing assailants, but as a real combat weapon it’s becoming less and less effective. Bombs are the new guns, and as they get cheaper and more precise the world’s guerrillas are relying on them and avoiding gun battles as much as possible. Of course any self-respecting pla…

I don’t know if anybody else lives in the country or knows of these, but I think ‘hunting clubs’ and ‘fishing clubs’ will become very popular again. They are now. But I wouldn’t doubt an explosion of popularity even more than now would happen. Sometimes firehalls around here pull in hundreds of peop…

Hi stochastic, that does clarify the intent to me. I suppose my hangup is that I would be wary of hiring an insurance company or anyone else who’s motivation is monetary for protection, on the account that financial rewards have a limited ability to motivate people. Money can’t be enjoyed by a dece…

What makes you think that the profit motive isn’t based on communal, ideological, and democratic solidarity? [of course I mean in the non-gov’t sense cause a gov’t isn’t communal, ideological, and isn’t democratic in its solidarity unless somebody wants to try to argue that forcing people to do som…

So I don’t get what you are getting at here. You think every home and building in a free society will have armed guards posted? If so, who will be watching the homes of the guards? If not, then how do we disagree? I just don’t think there will be mass violence in a free world. There would just be …

The big ones will, but otherwise it is the neighborhoods that will be armed, until such a day where crime has been reduced to such an extent that the expense will no longer be justifiable.

Why would anyone bomb a neighborhood or a building? Given that historically it does not happen often, I don’t see why in a free society, where criminal gangs (governments included) are gone, there would be organized groups of individuals targeting other groups. It seems that the cost of protecting …

So you should be wary of buying food from anyone whose motivation is monetary. On the same account that you are making, of course - that rewards have a limited ability to motivate people. Food is way more important and critical for ones own survival and well being then the service of protection. Hi…

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