How easy is it to make candy versus start a Security force, jails, and trained personnel?
You clearly missed the point of that analogy.
So how many entrants will there be? How will I know about this new force? How will I know they are better?
Do you apply this same criteria to restaurants too? More choices are worse than many? Is it better to just have the cashier pick for you?
At best there would be limited choices of a few security forces who would be sabotaging each other to make themselves look better.
Quite an assumption. A fair one though, considering governments do this too.
How can you not see the potential for corruption.
So a few companies are corrupt. People find out, they go out of business.
Government IS corrupt too. Government enjoys zero accountability for it. How is that better?
It's no better than a Govt force held accountable by other jurisdictional agencies and civilian oversight. Why do you think the same lazy citizens in our current system will all of the sudden be diligent in selecting a new force? The incumbent would probably be selected over and over. How is that better.
Suppose you use a car insurance company, every friend and relative you know using the same company, who has had accidents that they were not at fault for, ended up paying out of their own pockets because that insurance company refused to accept the valid claims?
Wouldn't you drop that insurance company ASAP?
Free markets are not to be worshiped. They are the best system, but you need to understand their limitations.
I do understand their limitations, but I understand that their limitations still far exceed governments capabilities.
Selfless people are rarely media whores. Unlike police. So, if your opinion if forged by what you read in the paper, its understandable that you would reach that conclusion.
It is not victimless. If it were legal it might be more victimless, but since it is illegal it is full of victims. Investigate the Mexican Cartels. There are victims. Drug users are not any more innocent than the Govt they despise for going to war. Seems like all of them are killing people in other countries.
By that logic, all tax payers should be in jail too. The more you have paid in taxes, the more time you should serve. Tax dollars have a lot more blood on them than drug money does.
Drug crimes are not the only victim-less either. Who is the victim when you are arrested over your personal garden? Who is the victim when you own a gun for self-defense that our local authorities have prohibited? Who is the victim when you just want to buy or sell raw milk?
Maybe, but still true. I have more recourse with the Govt than I will against some Anarchist tribunal made up of those that disagree with something, anything that I am doing.
There wouldn't be an anarchist tribunal. That doesn't even make sense.
You say that no one intrudes on others? What happens then when I divert water to my new lake on my property and mess up your irrigation downstream? What happens when I ride my motorcycle at 5AM in my front yard and you want to sleep? Ther are a million stupid yet simple examples of how Anarchists will never get along.
Actually, I said in anarchy you don't impose *beliefs* on others. Meaning, if your neighbors are of same gender and say they are married, you can't go and throw them in a cage because you read in the bible that God didn't like that.
I don't have enough information on the irrigation issue. Where is it coming from? Why couldn't we arrange something between the two of us? Why would government be necessary to resolve that?
If you're riding your motorcycle at 5AM, I personally wouldn't call the police over that. I think that's a petty and childish response. If you're doing it to be a jerk, I'll respond appropriately, without running to "I can't believe its not daddy".
I think you are an atheist because you believe in and trust "Man". You do not understand that "Man" is inherently evil and cannot be trusted. You're in some dream world that believes that somehow man can get along if it were not for Govt. Yet Man left to his own measures never has.
I never said *I* was an atheist. I'm still figuring that out. I kind of like the idea that we're in a virtual reality programmed by some programmer, but that's more something that I would *like* to be true. I actually lean more towards the budhist belief that identity is an illusion, that we live and die hundreds of times a second. It's a little more complex than that, and a little too much to get into right now.
You worship the free market and Man as much as Religionists worship their God or "Way". Anarchy puts their trust in Man. Is there any historical evidence that this works out? Just as with the Relighious - there are too many religions and none get along. Same with Anarchy, too many little Gods (each Man) and none will get along.
I believe the free market can only exist when scarcity is an issue. I also believe that scarcity will not always be an issue. The free market will actually dissolve itself eventually.
Government does not dissolve itself. It implodes after a while, but the scenario where the free market dissolves is actually beneficial to everyone, and not a catastrophe like government implosion.
Again, this is something to discuss elsewhere, because we're a ways off from any of that happening.
