I can only take the fact that you didn’t address the bulk of my statement as your concession that we were discussing predicting future events and that since the prediction cannot be 100% accurate, you think the whole prediction is invalid, yet here you are now predicting the future economic conditions of anarchy with words like absolutely.
Sigh, I was being facetious there; hence the: “…”, and the fact my performative contradicting was pretty obvious. You are right I should have never said spoken about anarcho-capitalism in absolutes, but its just so easy giving in to over-the-top rhetoric
can a burkean whig distinguish between men with guns or not? i dont know..
can a burkean whig understand that ‘police’ in a free society have an incentive structure to respond to consumer demand for things like actual justice and politeness, and that this is superior to monopoly provision of the service?
A Burkean Whig can certainly understand that the anarcho-capitalist has absolutely no idea how to transition to his idealized society, nor does he know how much damage instant changes in instutitons does to society. Revolutions only suceed when the revolutionary change is not so revolutionary.