Aw, geez. Why'd you have to quote me, of all people on this thread? Hm? Why? I left the thread.
Firstly, I advocate for small government. Meaning that the government has one and only one role. Which is to protect Individual Liberty.
Yeah. So did "the Founding Fathers".
When you advocate for the State, you essentially advocate for a Total State. It ALWAYS evolves that way.
You can advocate for freedom, or you can advocate for slavery. You've chosen to advocate for slavery.
Outcomes, by the way, are not relevant. You're not in charge of outcomes. You're responsible for that which you advocate.
Anarchists - advocates of statelessness - wouldn't tell you that outcomes are guaranteed in a world without the State.
That isn't possible in what is being offered in this thread. What is being offered in this thread is the question of replacing one State with another State
Exactly. Rather than refusing to be responsible for subjugation, you've chosen to actively advocate for it. Congratulations.
And in the replacement State (A Democracy in this case), the Individual and any group of Individuals has no protection against the Majority. None. In a Democracy there is no mechanism to protect the rights of The One to the right to his rights against the unchecked power of the Majority.
Yawn. 101.
Secondly, I'm intellectually honest enough to know that anarchy and capitalism do not mix. They are patently contrary to one another in fundamental principle.
This is an absurdity, of course. That's why you've offered no proof of it.
Those ideologies are not in the least incompatible. Statelessness does not at all obviate the free exchange of goods and services (assuming that is what you mean by "capitalism"). In fact, one is more likely to be able to engage in the free exchange of goods and services without the State.
I'm smart enough to understand that economic security is not possible without a coercive force.
Again, you're so sure of your psychic abilities that you've gone ahead and overturned the objective fact of human liberty before you could even see it put into practice.
Can you hook me up with tomorrow's lottery numbers, Natural "Citizen". :lol:
I've thought it through all the way.
Oh, that much is clear, sir. Quite a world you've conjured in your own mind. :thumb:
"Thinking it through all the way" does not have anything to do with realities as they might exist outside of your own head.
You're no better than a Communist. You've played out human history in your own head and decided that freedom isn't worth the risk. You've determined that your preferred degree of "coercive force" is the correct degree of coercive force. You're in league with good company - Washington, Jefferson, Napoleon, Hitler, Stalin. Congrats.
Some friends, observably, have not.
As a matter of fact, why don't you do us a favor and define the fundmental principles of anarchy to your best ability. And after that, define the fundamental principes of capitalism to your best ability, please.
You own your life. I own mine. Full stop.
Everything follows from that. It's really not all that difficult.
We can skip the free riders for now, but surely will get back to them because they're the ones who will cause your coercive force to implode under its own weight.
Again, your powers of prescience are
staggering. It's almost like I don't even have to live my life - why don't you just tell me what happens at the end?
And when you're finished, I'll do the same.
Deal?
Oh, I'm sure you will.
Just another know-it-all out to show us all how we should be living our lives. You don't own my life, Natural "Citizen". You only own yours.
