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Sorry if I wasn't clear; I'm not arguing for anarchy, I'm arguing for small Government tasked solely with protecting the rights of its citizens, funded by volun

• toss1 8y ago
  The same argument still applies. It is NOT impossible for people to make progress. It just takes more than a set of half-baked ideas. The ideas must be fully thought through to their consequences, with second- and third-order consequences, adjusted so that they will actually work with real human nature factored in, tested, adjusted, then rolled out. In this sense, although I am strongly attracted to Libertarianism and often use it as my default starting point, I recognize that it is like Communism in that it is completely impractical and won't happen in a real world (actually, communism has a better chance with modern tech solcing central planning, blockchain micropayments, smart contracts allocating resources, LOL, bs...).
• perl4ever 8y ago
  If government funded by "voluntary taxation" isn't anarchy, I'm not sure what else it could be. It seems to me obvious that either there is a monopoly on coercive power or there is not, and "voluntary taxation" means there is not. Which means you have multiple gangs or insurgencies.