Scams?

Miscellaneous General
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Yes, you are. And as for nukes, you seem to think they are costless or something you can just buy on a supermarket shelf. Unless the firm could cover their insurance costs, and somehow remain competitive in its pricing the nuke into its fees (as opposed to dealing with other well-equipped firms on a peaceful basis, rather than draining its coffers), they are not economically feasible and indeed could end up costing the firm far more than they gain it. Keep in mind mutual defence and widespread gun ownership will also be possible in anarchism (oh noes!) Now, why should I fear a private firm (or any other anarchist means of defence) getting its hands on them as opposed to a coercive monopolist who has no regard for costs because it has a tax base it can extort at its convenience, and which actually has used nukes in its history? Do you see how patently ridiculous this is? Are you going now?

I suggest you get your attitude under control (excess testosterone maybe?) and actually study anarchism, or leave the site, if not willing to educate yourself, rather than bringing up boring, refuted nonsense.

62

No private military companies will win if the rest of the world decided that this company is a threat and sent military forces against it. Best not to do business with customers with criminal or muderous intent.

63

Once I get the nuke in my hands I can nuke all my competitors.

64

A good point to add would be. The ONLY reason people need to pay lawyers (people who specialize in Law) is because “the law” is so retarded you need experts to work your way through the system in an attempt to recieve justice.

Private courts, lower costs for justice - the number is going to come down considerably. [:)]

65

Assuming that you have the capital and the ability to evade capture and detection from extremely competent private military intelligence network as well produce enough nukes to destroy every security firms around the world.

Face it. It is you versus the world. Who do you think is going to win?

And even if you do win, the world is left barren in a nuclear wasteland.

66

Or you (as you yourself here) could stop acting stupid. Consider that an official warning.

67

You play too many RTS games.

68

LOL

69

My 1/2 cent worth:

1] Forget all theoretical political systems and fantasizing about how you believe they should, or would work - its all just “pie in the sky” fantasy , not real world.

2] Take full responsibility for everything you think and do.

3] Realize that in the real world, scams are all around you regardless of which political “system” is in operation, but that, at the same time, one persons “scam” is anothers “honest endeavor.”

4] Trust no one without verification.

Just because your best friend recommends a restaurant and says they have great food and service does not mean that you’ll find the same to be true. Same with banks. Proceed accordingly.[i.e with trepidation, in banks, new restaurants, investment advisors, strippers, drugs, guns, mothers in law, attorneys, rock concerts, and just about everything else!]

Buyer Beware! In other words, before going into anything new and unknown with institutions or persons not previously dealt with and giving up your cold hard cash, do not make the assumption that if scammed, or other differences of opinion occur and you want money back, that you are “insured” because the other party says so, or if such assurances are in writing, do not assume that you would necessarily be covered in all unforseeable circumstances, or that an insurance company will always see your side, or that you are covered by the FDIC or the better business bureau or whatever, nor that the cops, or lawyers, or judges or courts [private or public] nor any private or government individual or group will see necessarily your side of the story.

5] if you mess up, be honest enough to acknowledge that ,assuming its not just plain old bad luck and no one is to blame, its probably your fault, [because you have taken full responsibility and are no longer looking for a “system” or person, or whatever outside of yourself to blame things on] , therefor take “the hit”, realize that all knowledge, to be learnt, has a price to be paid, and that you have learnt a [perhaps expensive?] lesson, and if you are really smart, realize that even though you have learnt that expensive lesson, it does not mean that you will not make mistakes or successfully avoid a different scam in the future.

Try to look on those future mistakes as paying the price of experience [a future price that will hopefully be greatly limited by your new, fully self responsible, less trusting approach]- but nevertheless a price paid for in both time, or money, or perhaps both.

We all make mistakes and get scammed. Experience is a great teacher, but it can be a cruel mistress if you let it.

Damage control is the name of the game.

70

No. You just haven’t followed your principles to the end. You are a statist though, which, in my opinion is much, much worse. Not all socialists advocate violence, but all statists do.

71

Good luck finding investors, customers, employees, or anyone to run your business for that matter.

72

Bank of America should have failed.

73

I dunno. I can’t read minds. It’s certainly not profitable to wage war, unless you can pass the costs off onto someone, but then you just have another government. And I fail to see what this critique has to do solely with anarchy. It’s a fact of any society that tyrants exist.

74

Mises was a statist so he advocates violence?

75

I don’t know that he ever explicitly advocated taxation and government enforced monopoly on arbitration and defense, however those things are more or less implied in supporting the state, so to some degree he did advocate violence.

76

He did. But he holds a self-contradictiory position, since if his other principles were implimented, we would be left with anarchno-capitalism.

77

Well, that’s true for any miniarchist. Anybody who believes in private property can take the principle to its logical conclusion.

78

It seems to me that he was, ironically, a socialist, in the truest sense of the word, in that he was always ultimately concerend with “the greater good” , indeed, that phrase or somehing like it is peppered throughout Human Action if I recall correctly.

79

…Explain his book Socialism then…

80

Well, Mises says all the time that social cooperation is the important thing, that government is needed to enable social cooperation (otherwise criminals would overrun society) and that natural rights are nonsense - more or less following Bentham whom he regularly praises. Mises also believed in conscription.