Toureg89
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wasnt sure about where to put this, but....
can a person be a cop and an agorist?
while the average, all-around patrolman might find it hard or impossible to not immorally initiate force agains others lest they refuse to do what their commanding officers order them to do as part of their "duties", there are elements of law enforcement that, if one can minimize the collateral damage on the way to becoming a member of, one can be relatively agorist: homicide detectives, auto theft task forces, domestic violence responses which are the most frequent night-time 911 call a patrolman might respond to.
Rothbard said something to the effect that, if the government monopoloizes a field of employment to the point of it being impossible for one to not work for the government in such a field, and that field can conceiveablely be seen as equally likely to exist in a free market where property rights are expected, so long as one does not commit immorality in that job, one can take that job.
so, yes on being a teacher, but no on being a drone pilot that assassinates people who might or might not be terrorists.
where do police officers fall in this rubric that paints a legible map of the grey area in a not-yet agorist/anarchist society?
are all local police non-agorists by virtue of what their job duties entail? or is there the possibility that one can manage to both be a cop and an agorist?
can a person be a cop and an agorist?
while the average, all-around patrolman might find it hard or impossible to not immorally initiate force agains others lest they refuse to do what their commanding officers order them to do as part of their "duties", there are elements of law enforcement that, if one can minimize the collateral damage on the way to becoming a member of, one can be relatively agorist: homicide detectives, auto theft task forces, domestic violence responses which are the most frequent night-time 911 call a patrolman might respond to.
Rothbard said something to the effect that, if the government monopoloizes a field of employment to the point of it being impossible for one to not work for the government in such a field, and that field can conceiveablely be seen as equally likely to exist in a free market where property rights are expected, so long as one does not commit immorality in that job, one can take that job.
so, yes on being a teacher, but no on being a drone pilot that assassinates people who might or might not be terrorists.
where do police officers fall in this rubric that paints a legible map of the grey area in a not-yet agorist/anarchist society?
are all local police non-agorists by virtue of what their job duties entail? or is there the possibility that one can manage to both be a cop and an agorist?
