SrirachaDawg:
Yeah, but the state always encroaches and grows. That’s why you have to go all out with no state. The best way to do that is to not start out as a state.
Anyways, I am an optimist, and I believe the state will go out with a whimper, not a bang. It will just continue to become less and less important in our lives until nobody really cares anymore. I don’t think there will be a big revolution.
Give me an example of not starting out as a state yet prevailing throughout time.
Merlin
July 6, 2011, 3:20pm
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Brutus:
Although I am a capitalist, I don’t buy into this whole anarcho-capitalistic ideal because it is self-defeating. Unfortunately, some kind of government is inevitable. Inevitably someone will break a law or break an ethic in the anarcho-capitalistic society. If, for instance, a private law enforcement company is called to disrupt a fight, yet the person they stop was actually doing what he needed to take revenge on his son’s killer, what happens? Laws will need to be defined and regions will need to be established. What if competing law enforcement companies are called to the same scene and try to administer different kinds of justice? If law will be determined from group to group without mandates and codes to follow, how will anyone officially do anything “illegal” and be prosecuted? Would there be such a thing? Seems to me the anarchy you speak of is closer to chaos, or at least it’s a small step away.
Way too many gray areas many people on here pretend cannot happen, yet life is full of these ethical dilemmas.
There’s but a step from what you write to starting to think “If I were an entrepreneur under anarchy, how would I create a better business model to avoid these nuisances?”