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This true seeker has some questions: How do you deal with petty crime? It would be impractical to set up a temporary court for every theft. How do you hold th

This true seeker has some questions: How do you deal with petty crime? It would be impractical to set up a temporary court for every theft. How do you hold the criminals while they're prosecuted, if they're prosecuted? Anarchists generally don't like prisons. Do you have a jail as a temporary holding cell? How do you stop external forces from taking over? As the old adage goes "If you want peace, prepare for war.".

snitko 13y ago
Those questions already have great answers. I can probably only recommend you a couple of authors like David D. Friedman and Stefan Molyneux, they all address the questions you asked. In short, yes, there will be courts and prisons. But in general, try to think of people from the middle ages wondering how would a country work without a king and what a crazy idea a democracy is. Or how stupid and primitive those troglodytes are for not believing in god. Or who's gonna pick cotton if we didn't have slaves. The problems you mention are not that difficult to solve. What's difficult is to show people that what they think is the best system out there is actually immoral.
- unimpressive 13y ago
  >David D. Friedman and Stefan Molyneux Any particular volumes?
  - snitko 13y ago
    "The Machinery Of Freedom" by David D. Friedman discusses many aspects of workings of a society without a government. "Everyday Anarchy" by Stefan Molyneux demonstrates how we already live most of our lives in complete anarchy and how it actually works pretty good. Both are available for free.
  - falk 13y ago
    This guy is nothing more than an extremist. Ask him about his prison system and I'm sure he'll parrot how privatized prisons are the solution to our woes. Alas, they aren't. Be weary of someone trying to tell you that if we just did X everything would be so much better.
    - unimpressive 13y ago
      There's a reason I described myself as a "true seeker". "No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world. I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker." - Mikhail Bakunin You're overestimating my risk for memetic infection and underestimating how much prior exposure I may have had to this subject. I often ask people for examples or book recommendations to learn more about them as much as I do to learn about a subject.[0] Besides, it couldn't possibly be worse than Mussolini's autobiography. [0]: An example. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6056707 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6056707 The authors response was worth more to me than the response of other commentators because I find that socialists often like to say that X or Y society wasn't socialist. So as an exercise I asked what they consider a socialist society. (And I was genuinely interested in what they had to say, so I wasn't lying.)
      - snitko 13y ago
        Just to clarify, I'm not a socialist by any measure, nor are the authors I mentioned.
    - noarchy 13y ago
      I can't think of a better way to drive traffic to the authors that OP mentioned than to take this approach. You're going to make people wonder just what they're missing, if this stuff is so "extremist". I'd be surprised if someone touting anarcho-capitalist politics would be in favour of private prisons, at least the flavour we're used to today, where governments pay companies to house inmates. There isn't anything particularly anarchist about such a thing.
      - falk 13y ago
        Other comments made in this thread by snitko. "Police officers, firefighters, teachers... Could it be that we don't really need any government to finance them? The demand is there. Private companies will be more than happy to fill it." "I agree. Let's use Bitcoin. It's possible right here today and you don't give anyone a cut." I hope people read the books OP mentioned. Anyone who advocates that we get rid police officers, firefighters, and teachers in place of private entities is an extremist. Plain and simple. He mentions David D. Friedman and Stefan Molyneux whom are libertarians. It doesn't matter if the government is funding private prisons, private prisons have one goal and one goal only: to get as many prisoners as possible. They will do whatever they can to get more prisoners. They've permanently damaged families across the country. How would you fund prisons beyond taxes? Bill the prisoner? The family? What about someone who maintains their innocence? The point of the matter is that snitko has come into a thread and contributed absolutely nothing.

snitko 13y ago

Those questions already have great answers. I can probably only recommend you a couple of authors like David D. Friedman and Stefan Molyneux, they all address the questions you asked. In short, yes, there will be courts and prisons. But in general, try to think of people from the middle ages wondering how would a country work without a king and what a crazy idea a democracy is. Or how stupid and primitive those troglodytes are for not believing in god. Or who's gonna pick cotton if we didn't have slaves. The problems you mention are not that difficult to solve. What's difficult is to show people that what they think is the best system out there is actually immoral.

unimpressive 13y ago
>David D. Friedman and Stefan Molyneux Any particular volumes?
- snitko 13y ago
  "The Machinery Of Freedom" by David D. Friedman discusses many aspects of workings of a society without a government. "Everyday Anarchy" by Stefan Molyneux demonstrates how we already live most of our lives in complete anarchy and how it actually works pretty good. Both are available for free.
- falk 13y ago
  This guy is nothing more than an extremist. Ask him about his prison system and I'm sure he'll parrot how privatized prisons are the solution to our woes. Alas, they aren't. Be weary of someone trying to tell you that if we just did X everything would be so much better.
  - unimpressive 13y ago
    There's a reason I described myself as a "true seeker". "No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world. I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker." - Mikhail Bakunin You're overestimating my risk for memetic infection and underestimating how much prior exposure I may have had to this subject. I often ask people for examples or book recommendations to learn more about them as much as I do to learn about a subject.[0] Besides, it couldn't possibly be worse than Mussolini's autobiography. [0]: An example. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6056707 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6056707 The authors response was worth more to me than the response of other commentators because I find that socialists often like to say that X or Y society wasn't socialist. So as an exercise I asked what they consider a socialist society. (And I was genuinely interested in what they had to say, so I wasn't lying.)
    - snitko 13y ago
      Just to clarify, I'm not a socialist by any measure, nor are the authors I mentioned.
  - noarchy 13y ago
    I can't think of a better way to drive traffic to the authors that OP mentioned than to take this approach. You're going to make people wonder just what they're missing, if this stuff is so "extremist". I'd be surprised if someone touting anarcho-capitalist politics would be in favour of private prisons, at least the flavour we're used to today, where governments pay companies to house inmates. There isn't anything particularly anarchist about such a thing.
    - falk 13y ago
      Other comments made in this thread by snitko. "Police officers, firefighters, teachers... Could it be that we don't really need any government to finance them? The demand is there. Private companies will be more than happy to fill it." "I agree. Let's use Bitcoin. It's possible right here today and you don't give anyone a cut." I hope people read the books OP mentioned. Anyone who advocates that we get rid police officers, firefighters, and teachers in place of private entities is an extremist. Plain and simple. He mentions David D. Friedman and Stefan Molyneux whom are libertarians. It doesn't matter if the government is funding private prisons, private prisons have one goal and one goal only: to get as many prisoners as possible. They will do whatever they can to get more prisoners. They've permanently damaged families across the country. How would you fund prisons beyond taxes? Bill the prisoner? The family? What about someone who maintains their innocence? The point of the matter is that snitko has come into a thread and contributed absolutely nothing.