> And whom do the elderly, physically weak women, and children call when faced with this threat? Private security forces (that would respond to actual crimes i

> And whom do the elderly, physically weak women, and children call when faced with this threat? Private security forces (that would respond to actual crimes instead of looking for busy-work like busting people smoking the wrong things or having sex the wrong way) or friends and family. Or, in the case of (hopefully) trained adults, they will carry their own threat equalizers. > Who responds to hold-ups, hostages, organized racketeering, riots, and theft after the fact? After the fact? Well, currently, the police lolololo. When seconds count, they are minutes away. > Who even determines whether thr level threat rose to violence or who instigated? Some libertarians envision complicated matrices of private courts that would settle these sorts of things. Me, I'm not so sure that sort of thing would work. I don't know what the answer is, but I know that the monopoly-on-violence state, under which true equality is impossible, is just not the answer.