Why Anarcho-Capitalists Are Statists

[gotlucky]

Let’s be clear here:

You say:

@hashem

Establishment anarchists are the new statists. I don’t know to what degree that guy supports my reasoning, but I came to the same conclusion some months ago and have defended it here in other threads.

So-called anarchists trumpet an ideal that proclaims “no rulers”, while pushing a system profoundly dependent on violent morals-enforcement. What are the morals-enforcers if not rulers?

You have also said recently:

@hashem

Yes, private law will be just like statism. Probably worse in many respects. But the OP is the wrong way to approach this topic. The proper approach is: private firms will still use violence based on the worst terms that society can be pushed to accept at any given time. The main difference is the violence will be used to defend moral system X instead of moral system Y. And to the extent they use courts, perfectly arbitrary judgments will be made which is no improvement over the arbitrary court systems we already have.

You are the person asserting that advocates of private law will rely upon morals enforcers instead of law enforcers. In a very real sense, there isn’t law “enforcement” in private law. Disputes that are settled by violence are settled outside the law in a private law society. So, you have a choice to make:

1. You can drop this “morals enforcement” and debate the legal system that advocates of private law actually support, or
2. You can continue to obfuscate the issue by claiming falsely that advocates of private law support “morals enforcement”.

If you continue to choose option 2, then it is you who is intellectually dishonest. Advocates of private law support rulerless law, and I have already explained above what kind of law can be had without rulers. You have ignored this, insisting that we talk about morals enforcement. Well, morals enforcement is irrelevant to private law. Do not ascribe to advocates of private law the desire for morals enforcement.

It is intellectually dishonest to attribute “morals enforcement” to anarchy. Under private law, if a dispute is settled with law, then the parties to the dispute have settled the dispute nonviolently without rulers. If the dispute is settled without law, then at least one disputant refuses to settle nonviolently.