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This is my big problem with anarcho-capitalists. God didn't come down and give us governments. We started without order and survival based on individual outpu
by bgroat 5y ago
This is my big problem with anarcho-capitalists.
God didn't come down and give us governments.
We started without order and survival based on individual output.
And every single living thing beyond a threshold of intelligence agreed that it sucked.
- baq 5y agoindeed. couldn't agree more. any anarchy is just one step away from despotism. when power lies on the ground, it doesn't take much for anyone to pick it up and wield it. you really need a strong government to preserve anarchy.
- bgroat 5y agoThis is another big point. "Liberty" is a wonderful lag measure, but a terrible lead measure. The only thing you can really do to immediately create more liberty is deregulating. But in a world without laws, the only law is that of the jungle. In which case we have a might makes right tyranny. But as a lag measure you can do things like legislate worker rights, minimum wages, term limits, etc. With the long-term effect of more "liberty and freedom"
- jstanley 5y agoThe fact that some order is better than no order does not imply that more order is better than less order. If you assume that adding more government always makes things better, then why not go all the way to complete totalitarianism? If you agree that totalitarianism is too far, then I don't see why reasonable people can't disagree on which direction (more government or less government) is an improvement on the status quo.