“The difference between you and me is that I believe in self-ownership, Private Property, Justice, and Non-Aggression, and you do not.”
Well to me, that sounds like a recipe that would definitely pave the pathway for society to devolve into one of survival of the fittest, while only encouraging yet more thuggish gang-sprawl.
How exactly Non-aggression equals “thuggish gang-sprawl?” They are the exact opposites of each other. Your logic is missing a screw.
And thank you for telling me what it is that I believe in, because I have been wondering about that all of my life.
You believe in aggressive violence, which is the definition of evil, and you do not have the courage or honesty to face the fact.
when wages are garnished it is an act of authority that must be wholly justified under codified public law and then procedurally certified prior to action
You are seduced by a lie that when something is: “an act of authority … under codified public law and then procedurally certified prior to action” it must be just.
You are wrong. Nazis had concentration camps running by “an act of authority … under codified public law and then procedurally certified prior to action” yet it did not make it just, or moral or good. It was pure evil.
What is the principle here? Justice. What is Justice? Non-violation of Private Property. Nothing more, nothing less. When “public law” violates justice it is no law at all. It is evil, no matter who “procedurally certified” it. Learn this.
A proper system of governance could never function under NAP/ZAP
That is a contradiction of terms. NAP (Non-Aggression Principle) is the definition of Justice, therefore “proper system of governance” IS NAP. Therefore, your statement is equivalent to:
“A proper system of governance could never function under JUSTICE.” That is an oxymoron.
—we tried something similar to that already as the Confederate States of America, and it was largely a failure.
Inasmuch as Justice (i.e. NAP) was tried anywhere it produced prosperity. But inasmuch it was violated, including in Confederate States it produced economic ruin and tyranny. The solution, therefore, is MORE justice, not less.
Justice = NAP. They are one and the same.
So the mafia possesses a legitimate moral superiority for its crimes, while a government functioning under a compact does not?
I said nothing of the sort. ANYONE who practices aggressive violence is evil, be it mafia or government, or a thug on the street. There is exactly zero difference in principle, except government is more destructive at it than all the mafia and street thugs put together and multiplied by a thousand. In the last century alone,
governments were responsible for over 260,000,000 death, EXCLUDING combat, and killing THEIR OWN people (and not those of a neighboring country). Thus governments that violate NAP present far greater danger to their own people, than to the foreigners.
And it was the Nuremberg trials that made the Nazis somewhat accountable by their actions and crimes against humanity.
Delightful. What about US government murdering hundreds of thousands of civilians, and poisoning millions of yet unborn with radiation in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, especially at the time when Japan sought for any opportunity to surrender and end the war? So at Nurnberg victorious war criminals were judging defeated war criminals. These victorious war criminals were then spraying women and children in Vietnam with napalm and agent orange, and
women and children in Iraq with white phosphorous and depleted uranium, causing death and birth defects on the scale unseen in that country.
So then in the case of a private security force, I can simply tort another individual and then resist their attempts to confront me, to avoid them holding me accountable for my wrongful act against another, and then I am just free to go and be left alone?
Not at all! Free market can deliver justice and security much more efficiently, and infinitely more justly than the unjust by definition, and legendarily inefficient, cumbersome and expensive (think half of your income) government law enforcement supported by aggressive violence of taxation.
Now, defensive violence is justified violence. Defensive violence is defined as the use of EQUAL force to offset/neutralize the aggression of another. Defensive violence is a logical part of NAP, because it cancels out (nullifies) Aggressive violence. Free market can deliver justice enforcement in many ways. Here is just one example:
Many other ways are possible that are in harmony with principles of justice, and Free Market will implement the most efficient and economical solution.
Additionally, are you unaware of the blatant acts of criminality that Blackwater/Xe and Wackenhut employees are alleged of committing and that such would only become worse without the intervention of a criminal justice system and the procedural mandates of government that are part and parcel to our system of governance?
It is aggressive violence of the government that shields criminals like Black Water from justice. Government’s aggressive violence makes the crimes of private actors worse. Why? Because you cannot expect anything else from wholesale organized evil and injustice, i.e. organized aggressive violence of taxation. It is in principle, impossible to build justice on foundation of injustice.
without the establishing of organized authority or as you call it “evil force”, such rights or privileges cannot ever be assured).
That is an oxymoron, and self-contradiction. Evil is a violation of NAP. You cannot, in principle, assure “rights or privileges” by violating them.
NAP is nothing more or less than justice itself.
It should be realized that laissez-faire does involve the prudent use of regulating through government; … ensuring that both the environment and its populace remain unharmed in the process.
The only regulation that has any right to exist is the regulation of Justice. NAP is justice.
Free market has much stricter regulations than the government, because government, through OCEA, EPA and FDA permits pollution of the environment and food, while Free Market forbids it. Why? Because under Justice, i.e. Free Market, you have no right whatsoever to pollute your neighbor’s property. Not at all.
That is the difference.
there is no way to secure such rights or privileges without either (1) government and taxation, (2) placing yourself as the ultimate aggressor in the enforcement of violence to met those ends, or (3) revisioning all of humanity into a utopia of altruism.
“Your points (1), (2), and (3) are completely impractical, unnecessary, and self-contradictory.”
Really, how is that exactly? From my point of view your reply is left rather unsubstantiated.
(1) You cannot “secure rights” by destroying them; therefore you cannot prevent plunder and aggressive violence by legalizing them (in the form of taxation, which is nothing more than wholesale aggressive violence and organized and legalized plunder).
(2) You cannot enforce NAP by violating it. So (2) is forbidden under NAP.
(3) “Revising all of humanity” is impractical and unnecessary. All we need is justice, i.e. NAP. Justice is the ONLY thing that can ever work.
Correct, I cannot tax another for any reason, whatsoever, as I am not the government.
However, you may delegate your property to another party, third-party or otherwise, it is called a contract amongst consenting adults (i.e., a social contract).
As an individual I can arrange a binding agreement amongst my neighbors, so long as they are all in agreement to the terms.
America’s social contract may be found within our U.S. Constitution and its Amendments. Pretending that these legal documents are nonexistent is simply to avoid reality.
As you correctly pointed out, for a contract to be valid, there must be explicit
consent to the terms of the contract by all the individuals involved.
U.S. Constitution was signed by people long dead. Even at the time of its signing, MOST of the population did NOT give their INDIVIDUAL and direct consent to it. Neither most of the people who now live. I did not consent to legalized plunder. I did not consent to aggressive violence and injustice of taxation, neither most of the people I know INDIVIDUALLY consented to it. Therefore, since there is NO voluntary consent, there is no contract.
To deny this is to deny basic logic, and to deny reality.
The only “social contract” that requires no consent is the “contract” of justice.
Why? Because you do not need anyone’s consent as to what to do with YOUR own property. JUSTICE cannot be annulled by any number of people, dead or alive. Taxation clauses of the US Constitution are blatant violations of JUSTICE, and as the gross injustice of slavery was removed from the Constitution (sadly and unnecessarily by the shedding of much blood, I might add), so must the gross injustice of taxation be removed, if this Nation and the Constitution itself, are to survive and prosper.
Justice is no play thing.
Constitution must unavoidably die if it does not purge itself from all injustice. The abomination of slavery was already removed from it. The abomination of taxation is next.
If it is not done, the Constitution, and the country with it, will unavoidably self-destruct. These are the choices, because that is the nature of justice. You cannot destroy justice with any document or device whatsoever, you can only destroy yourself against justice, because Justice is as eternal as God Himself. And you cannot prevail against God. Learn this.
No, not at all, for it was only for an organized society (i.e., the authority of a governing body) that provided you with the means of achieving your personal financial growth. For example, you may have caught a ton of seafood to sell to local stores and restaurants, but they were not yours, you did not make them, and yet you took them to use in order to meet your own self-serving needs, while society as a whole permitted for you to do so. The same is to be stated when mining natural resources, such as precious metals, coal, crude oil, logging, hunting game, potable water tables, etc.; while, such objects of desire may have originated on the very land that you own, they are finite and mutually beneficial to the whole of society and its surrounding ecosystem.
Now I know you are a socialist. You just don’t have the integrity to admit it. You have no idea what Private Property is. You do not understand that my property is “beneficial to the whole of society” only as part of VOLUNTARY transactions (gifts, trades, exchange), and your platitudes about benefits to “the whole of society” are no license for legalized plunder, theft and injustice.
The society must unavoidably self-destruct if Private Property, i.e. Justice is not held sacred as the Law of God himself, who said: “Thou shall not steal.” Learn this much at least, you closet socialist.
This further includes statutory protections afforded to you from patent and copyright infringement against those many inventions or self-help books that you have written over the span of your life.
Patents and copyrights as currently enforced by government are violations of justice. See more here:
Constitutional Amendment: Abolishing Copyrights and Patents.
“Free Market can deliver security services much more economically (without confiscating over half of your income), and infinitely more justly than the inherently unjust government forced monopoly of law enforcement.”
Really, how so, being that there is no recognizable—just—system of governmental authority to ratify and enforce laws upon the populace?
Justice is universal and well recognize. Justice is nothing more or less than Non-Violation of Private Property.
That is the Natural Law of Justice. It is NOT subject to the opinions of politicians any more than the laws of mathematics or of mechanics are subject to their opinions. These laws are independent of your opinion of them. They are absolute. If you square yourself with this Natural Law of Justice, you will have peace and prosperity. If you violate it you will have tyranny, and eventual self-destruction of the society. So you are wrong.
The origin of justice is in the origin of man. It comes from God, and is the fundamental attribute of all existence. In fact it is the governing Law of the Universe. Justice ALWAYS takes its course. NO ONE can escape its grasp any more than they can escape self. (You cannot run from yourself. It is impossible.)
So you reject justice by government involvement that functions under the black letter of law,
I reject “justice” by the government supported by aggressive violence of legalized plunder, because it is an oxymoron, self-contradiction, and no justice at all.
while advocating for justice to be privatized under a vague and ambiguous presumption of ethical values and morality, which inevitably will be valued and perceived differently from one person to the next, from one locale to the next
There is nothing “vague and ambiguous” about justice. Its laws are absolute like the laws of mathematics. The task is to discover them and live accordingly.
In any case, it is infinitely better than the wickedness and injustice codified into “law” right now, and enforced upon the entire country! What we have now is truly an abomination, and it cannot be otherwise because it is built on foundation of evil, that is aggressive violence of taxation, which is evil.
So truly, in your view justice only become tainted or “enforced and evil” when commenced by the “government”, yet remains pristine when provided through the “security forces” of free markets?
Free Markets are only as perfect as the people comprising them, but at least the principle of Free Market is the correct one. It is the principle of Justice, that is the principle of Non-Aggression.
On the other hand, the government supported by aggressive violence of taxation is INHERENTLY unjust. And it can never be anything but unjust, because it is built on the foundation of INJUSTICE. Injustice is defined as nothing more or less than aggressive violence, the opposite of Non-Aggression.
So one is built on perfectly just principle, and the other is built on perfectly UNJUST principle.
It is that simple.
Regardless, the free markets already have a privatized form of security, they are call armed/unarmed security guards
Unfortunately we do not have Justice now (or we are violating it), and thus we do NOT have a Free Market now. It is distorted by aggressive violence of government, which is unjust.
“It is a moral responsibility, that is fulfilled by you being a good and productive person interacting with others on VOLUNTARY/non-coercive, and thus mutually beneficial basis. This is how you benefit the society, and not by destroying Liberty and therefore JUSTICE via legalized plunder and aggressive violence.”
You know, I have to ponder is it merely coincidental that nearly every person that I have ever come across holding such beliefs all have one thing in common; they are vagabonds and live their lives doing whatever it is that they want, whenever they want, without any real care or regard to others (be it jaywalking, trespassing, stealing or shoplifting, urinating in public, littering, drinking in public, loitering, or whatever else).
Fascinating. I can say the same thing about you. But how does that effect the TRUTH of the principles of Justice we are discussing? Where is your reason? You give no reason to disprove my point. Therefore, you are figuratively “urinating in public” on reason. And this “urination” is the sum total of your argument. Not very convincing at all!
“In the final analysis it is JUSTICE that you are rebelling against. The ancient commandment of God: “Thou shall not steal. Thou shall not kill.” This is what you are rebelling against. This is not how you build a good, free, moral, and just society! Not at all!”
It is odd that you turn to religious to further substantiate your points, being that religion is itself one of the oldest constructs of governing—also noting that empirically, religion has resulted in devising the most chaotic, hostile, and uncertain means of justifying rule over others.
There is nothing wrong with just government, and there is nothing wrong with true religion. Both are in perfect harmony. My religion is the religion of justice. It is scientifically and morally sound as the pillars of eternity. True science, true religion, and true government are one and the same. It is all TRUTH.
Only false religions, false government, and false science are self-contradictory and are the source of chaos, division, and tyranny.
False is the opposite of True.
So when people do not follow such proclaimed moral edicts it is for governments to step in for the purposes of retaining and reassuring the public’s order.
As I already said, it is IMPOSSIBLE to establish justice with injustice. It is a self-contradiction, and therefore false.
As if by taking away government people will not ever again murder, rape, rob, fight, steal, accuse, or commit acts of arson, fraud, negligence, molestation, incest, infidelity, tort, libel, slander, etc. Historically, there is nothing to prove this to be factual.
I never said that human implementation of Free Market, i.e. Justice will be free from these vices, because men are imperfect. However, all these abominations are made far worse by government that practices wholesale aggressive violence, which is nothing more than organized evil, by definition. Aggressive violence is the definition of evil.
Free Market is infinitely more suited to perfect human nature, than the unjust, by definition, aggressive violence of the state. All these vices are multiplied through the organized evil of the aggressive violence and injustice of the state.
A state devoid of aggressive violence would be just. The proper role of such state is nothing more or less than to govern public property according to justice. See
The Fundamental Principles of Liberty.
Without a procedure of laws to be followed and enforced, either a stronger person or larger group can exert the personal authority of their desires or wills over the vested ownership of your property and without any legal recourse being necessary or repercussion to themselves.
Right. So I am all for just laws being enforce. Just laws are those that do not violate the Non-Aggression Principle. That’s what Justice is.
It is NAP.
Remember, it just so happens that such authority has been provided for by our social compact; otherwise, who cares if it is just authority or not, for justice devolves to being purely relative; for example, I say it was just for me to steal and sell your horse, yet you would argue that what I did was unjust,
Justice is not relative, it is absolute, like math. 2 + 2 = 4 is absolute. It is not subject to opinions.
either way according to what you are proposing it matters not, because you no longer have any recourse that will provide you with justice. Your notion was intend on me always opting to perpetually take the morally proper action and whenever I dare not to, it simply resolves itself to your personal loss and my personal gain.
Wrong. In a Free Market I can hire a reputable Sheriff, or a third party, who will restore my horse to me.
How is that different from the present government?
It is different because I VOLUNTARILY hire the provider of security, and I chose the one that provides the best service for the price. Justice is not violated in such transaction, because it is VOLUNTARY. Present government, on the other hand, FORCES me to accept its “services” at the point of a gun, with me having no say in the matter, plus it decides how much I will pay for the “service.” It is nothing more than mafia-style “protection” racket. It is a fraud. A violation of Justice. It is, in fact, EVIL, because it is based on AGGRESSIVE violence (which is the definition of evil).
See the difference? Aggressive violence is the difference. Justice is the difference.
Free Market (devoid of Aggressive violence) is the ONLY just means of providing security (or any product for that matter). Because aggressive violence is ALWAYS wrong.
“It is a general principle. Government is NOT excluded from it. In fact, it has been the root of all social evil, to assume that government is somehow exempt from this law of JUSTICE.”
Again, it is not that government is exempt from justice, it is that exacting provisions of state and individual sovereignty has been stipulated within our social compact, so as to aspire a more perfect union of states and federalism.
You cannot build “a more perfect union” on INJUSTICE.
It cannot be done.
It is the difference between love and rape. Call it “federalism” or what you will, if it violates the NAP, it is UNJUST, immoral, and EVIL.
Government is composed of people entrusted to serve the collective needs of an individualistic society; they are however, not going to do so for free. As the saying goes: you get what you pay for.
Exactly. Hence the need for a Free Market. Free Market (free from aggressive violence, especially free from institutionalized aggressive violence) provides products and services superior to immoral by definition, government forced monopoly, which drives the price up, and quality down, and above all that is fundamentally unjust.
There are various methods of taxation, many of which are entirely voluntary.
“Voluntary taxation” is an oxymoron, a contradiction of terms. Taxation, by definition, is not voluntary.
taxes are intended to take money away from you, not to provide you with additional monies.
Not unless YOU are doing the taxing! Government gets “additional monies” by taxation. Government derives income by taxing you.
However, if you define “tax” as public taxation of private property, then “tax” is immoral and unjust. Why? Because it violates the NAP.
I defined “tax” as extracting wealth from others who use your property. It is synonymous with a user fee, or with rent. I thought it was a more general definition of the term. Hence, I said, you can only justly tax the things you OWN, and nothing else, and you extract the tax from the people who use the things you own.
You are missing the differentiation between what comprises an individual person and what comprises a governmental body.
You are missing the fact that a government body cannot have any just authority, except that which has been delegated to it by individuals comprising it. And since no one can delegate an authority he does not have, the government cannot justly do to individual or his property, except what you and I, INDIVIDUALLY, have a right to do. If you, INDIVIDUALLY, have no right to force your neighbor to do or not to do something, you cannot ask your government to do it in your behalf, because you cannot delegate an authority you do not have.
authority is … based upon our social contract—our Nation’s most sacred and fundamental law.
Already answered that. But to repeat: according to basic logic, there can be no contract without INDIVIDUAL and explicit consent. Since no such explicit and individual consent exists, there is no contract, social or otherwise. To deny that is to deny logic and reality.
Have you perhaps, considered, expatriating (it would seem that doing so would suit you well)?
Why should I leave and forsake my property? Why don’t
YOU leave, since you do not believe in Justice or Private Property? Why don’t YOU leave?
Do you get my point?
“What you call “anarchism” is nothing more than JUSTICE itself. JUSTICE is nothing more than non-aggression. It implies the right to use EQUAL force to offset/neutralize the aggression of another against your property.”
No, anarchism is the notion of voluntary compliance within an individually autonomous society—and at its best it is a complete pipedream.
“Voluntary compliance” is the definition of non-aggression, and therefore you just confirmed my definition. And it is not “a complete pipedream,” any more than Justice itself being “a complete pipedream.” If you do not believe in Justice, then come out and say that, and expose yourself for the fraud that you are. Otherwise, admit that Justice, Non-Aggression, and Free-Market (or as you call it “anarchism”/ “anarcho-capitalism”) are one and the same.
Moreover, it is just an oddity that anarchists (even since their advent in the late 1800’), being so intend upon seeking only non-aggression and justice and the like, are primarily viewed throughout society as being violent trouble makers—that advocate violent revolution to meet their end objectives?
It is not that odd, if you consider that the thieves writ large, a.k.a. the present government, consider the ideas of Non-Aggression a threat to their plunder, because these true principles expose the aggressive violence of the state that is hiding behind nice sounding and lying phrases such as “social justice,” “social security,” “spreading democracy” and other violent frauds. Not surprising at all. Truth is treason in the empire of lies, and is always ridiculed, slandered and violently opposed by tyrants, murders and thieves.
Also the problem is in the dual definition of the term “anarchy” itself.
It has two OPPOSITE meanings, which the critics seek to slyly exploit to confuse the uneducated:
1) chaos, or the law of the jungle, and
2) society built on non-aggression, that is voluntary associations between people.
As you can see the definitions (1) and (2) are in direct opposition to each other, which is not new to English language. (The word “cleave” would be another example of one word meaning opposite things, depending on the context).
This is why I never call myself “anarchist,” to avoid the sly and lying exploitation of the opposite meanings. I call myself a follower of Justice and Liberty as defined by the Non-Aggression Principle. That is much harder to twist and lie about.
Here is a brain buster to ponder, when anarchists demonstrate and smash out shop windows or set vehicles and dumpsters on fire is that what they are doing, i.e., using equal force to offset or neutralize aggression against the property of another?
These are “anarchists” in definition (1). Most often they are provocateurs sent by the government itself to frame anarchists (definition 2) in a bad and lying light. “Anarcho-capitalists,” by definition, are the followers of the Non-Aggression principle. They would never participate in such behavior because it is the very opposite of the core of their principles.
‘Tis hypocrisy poring over?
No, it is tyrant’s lying, that I just described, “poring over.” And you sing the song of the liars. I wonder why? Are you getting paid by them?
I would argue that personal choice, freedom of thought, expression, and feeling are the only practical things to exist.
I would agree with that. These are the principles of self-ownership. And “personal choice” implies the right of property ownership, otherwise you have nothing to choose with.
Justice is a simply a means to bring resolution against a wrong committed against another or their property.
That is exactly my definition too, because “wrong committed against another or their property” is the same as saying “aggressive violence” and is the opposite of NAP! See, we agree!
The most effective way to obtain true justice is through a structured, organized society—and hence governance.
Fine, I agree, as long as such “governance” does not violate the Non-Aggression Principle, otherwise it would be an oxymoron:
“The most effective way to obtain justice is to violate it.” Which would be a self-contradiction, because violation of NAP is the very definition of injustice, even according to you!
Again prudent taxation is neither theft nor plunder. Sure using such descriptive words sounds flashy and all, but in reality that is to misuse those words outside of their intended definitions.
If you define “taxation” as public taxation of private property, then it is never “prudent” any more than rape is prudent. It is an oxymoron, a self-contradiction, because definition of plunder is transferring the property of one, to whom it rightly belongs, to another, to whom it does not belong, all against the owners will. That is exactly the definition of such “taxation.”
The only “prudent taxation” by public representative government, a taxation that would not violate the laws of justice is the taxation of Public property, in the form of public property user fees. It would be just provided that:
a) Majority of the users agree,
b) Everyone is treated equally, (because all have equal claim of ownership in it), and
c) The property of no one is violated in the process.
Conveniently, you overlook the “free rider problem” associated with NAP/ZAP.
Not really. If a businessman beautified the front of his store and planted trees that give nice shade to people who come upon his property to brows or shop, are they “free riders?” Perhaps, but it is justified by the businessmen’s self-interest, because it has the net effect of increasing his sales and therefore profits. If it is a “free rider” so be it. It does not violate the laws of justice at all. Would you force charge passersby because you beatified the exterior of your shop they are passing by? No! Because that would be unjust!
Moreover, why is only a majority of the people required to consent to this means of taxation [of public property]; meaning that neither is this in-line with the theorems of NAP/ZAP, only a unanimous agreement would be.
Not really. You are talking about joint ownership of property. If the property is indivisible, then the person or group with the most shares of control in it would rightly control it, provided that they provided a just compensation to the dissenting minority. That would be just.
free markets are simply those that are permitted to function economically without being burdened by governing bodies; such does not preclude governing regulations to ensure such things as the safety of both the public and a business’s employees, the preservation of the environment, or prudent taxation to generate a reasonable sum of revenue.
Another oxymoron: First you say “free markets are … those … permitted to function … without being burdened by governing bodies,” and then you contradict yourself with “governing regulations” and “prudent taxation” [read “prudent plunder,” because “taxation” IS plunder, by the strictest definition of the term].
As I said before, Free Market regulations are much more stringent than present government regulations, because no one is allowed to violate his neighbor’s property in safety or environment. Stop contradicting yourself! Self-contradiction is the definition of falsehood. And you embrace self-contradictions almost in EVERY sentence!
Justice is a concern entirely distinctive from free markets.
Not really. Justice is DEFINED as Non-Aggression. And Non-Aggression is the defining feature of Free Market. So you are wrong.
Upon exactly what legal authority would they [private security forces] operate?
The authority of Private Property.
You have the right to protect your own property, and therefore you can rightly delegate that authority to a third party and hire it to protect your property. It is all within the rights of Private Property, and the right of contract that stems from Private Property, i.e. you can do with your own as you please, as long as you do not violate the property of another.
Why would a private security force not violate justice, yet bona fide law enforcement personnel do?
Because you VOLUNTARILY contract and hire the security force to protect your property which is perfectly within your rights, and the security force has no right to FORCE its “services” upon you.
On the other hand the “bona fide law enforcement personnel” supported by aggressive violence of taxation are violating your property, FORCING you to pay for the “service” whether you want it or not, plus on top of that, they determine the price you are going to pay for their “service” and you have no right to refuse it under threat of lethal violence if you resist it enough. Mafia-style “protection” racket comes to mind. And yes, it is a blatant violation of Private Property, and of Justice, because it is based on Aggressive violence (which is the definition of evil).
That is the difference. Thanks for the question.
there would be nothing in law for them to enforce, so one could not claim or discern if they acted appropriately or inappropriately.
Wrong. There is but
ONE law that matters. The Universal Law of Justice, which is simply Non-Violation of Private Property.
“Free market will have justice enforcement much BETTER than the unjust, by definition, government forced “protection” racket.”
More seriously though, there is nothing reality based to substantiate such a statement. Additionally, would you ever actually want to be confronted by Blackwater/Xe or Wackenhut mercenaries, err… employees? Personally, I know that I would not.
First of all you are wrong. There are private detectives, private mediation, and private security forces already. It all exists and in principle does not violate the laws of justice (whereas tax supported “protection” racket does violate justice).
Secondly, if Blackwater was not protected from the demands of justice by the aggressive violence of the state, in a Free Market, another security agency could be hired to bring them to justice; in addition, Blackwater itself would lose reputation and customers if it was known that they rob, plunder and violate justice. It would be bad for business for these TWO significant reasons. As it is, though, Blackwater gets paid from tax revenues that the government collects at a point of a gun, AND the governments shields Blackwater from the demands of justice. Thus, through its aggressive violence the government creates the hideous monster known as Blackwater, whereas Free Market strongly discourages it. Once again, aggressive violence of the state magnifies all the evils of human nature, while Free Market minimizes them.
Free markets could truly care less about their consumers—their sole concern is invested in appeasing their share-holders.
Not really. In a Free Market you cannot “appease” share-holders, unless you satisfy the consumers, because otherwise there would be no profits to appease share-holders with. In present corporatism, though, the reverse is true. You can “appease” your share-holders because the corporations get paid by tax money collected by the government at the point of a gun. So, there is no incentive to satisfy the consumers, (unless that consumer is the criminal government which finances its crimes at the point of a gun via taxation).
Thus again, it is government’s aggressive violence that distorts the markets and magnifies evil in the corporations practically at every turn, because it is built on evil (i.e. aggressive violence).
What about companies that import hazard laced items from other nations, such as items that use lead in paint, asbestos, melamine in imported milk, foaming agents in the McNuggets, meat broth in vegan french-fries, etc?
It is EPA and FDA that LEGALIZES GMO’s, aspartame and poisons in the foods and products, creating false sense of security in the consumers, and shields the guilty corporations from the demands of justice. In a free market it would not be so. If you harm someone, and it can be proven, you become subject to the demands of justice.
Think cell-phone or wireless device companies care about your safety or the damage they are inflicting upon the environment or insects.
The same thing as above. Just substitute “FCC.”
Are drug and vaccine companies are going to be completely truthful with either their customers or those they do their initial testing on (e.g., Bayer, H5N1 testing, HPV vaccinations, etc.)?
Funny you should say this, because
Congress with the blessing of Supreme Court passed laws preventing litigation against vaccine producers. Which again proves my point. Government’s aggressive violence shields guilty corporations from the demands of Justice, i.e. demands of the Free Market.
Sure, while I might have no right to intrude upon another, without an organized system of government, what exactly is there to stop me? Nothing, simply for in the end it would come down a combination of peer pressure, survival of the fittest, and gang mentality.
Wrong. There will be “an organized system” of private competing security firms, whose revenues and survival will depend on how well they will provide the service of justice enforcement.
You are seemingly ignoring the ominous fact that regardless if the government has made exception for certain companies to harm other or commit otherwise illegal acts, the government still does not compel or force those very companies to what it is that they do,
Not always. Sometimes it DOES compel them as in the case of NSA spying. But more often it bribes them with the money it steals via aggressive violence of taxation.
for they do so on their own cognizance; ergo, such companies, and others, would simply continue those very same practices, just without first seeking governmental intervention.
But they would not be shielded from just retribution by the Free Market, whereas now they are. They are shielded from legal action, and from the loss of revenues, because they get paid from tax money collected by government at the point of a gun.
Moreover, you overlook that it is companies that lobby the government for professional favors and not the other way around. Just imagine the possibilities that could be achieved by those same companies sans the need to pay exorbitant sums to lobbyists for the purchasing of necessary votes throughout the legislature?
It doesn’t matter who lobbies who. The whole shenanigans exists because of aggressive violence of the government. So you have proved my point.
Enron could have just as well occurred even without the aid of government
Enron could have never have existed in its form and magnitude without the government involvement!
Sure, in a Free Market there would still be fraud and aggressive force, but not nearly on the galactic scale that is made possible by the aggressive violence of the state. Just look at the Federal Reserve. That cartel deals and steals in TRILLIONS (more than the Congress itself), and it is all made possible via the aggressive violence of the state which granted it the legalized counterfeiting monopoly, legalizing and monopolizing the immense fraud!
Sure there is much ridiculousness to statutory interpretation of said antitrust laws by governing bodies; however, that is largely based more upon intentional harassment under the guise of upholding “the law”, while covertly, the real motivation is to supplement a lobbying company’s share of the market.
You proved my point again. The aggressive violence of the state MAGNIFIES all the flaws of human nature. Why? Because aggressive violence is the definition of evil; and if you plant evil, you will reap more evil until you are completely destroyed!
The only solution is to renounce aggressive violence, (i.e. evil) and allow Justice, that is Free Market to operate.
Undoubtedly, similar antics would take place without government involvement.
Yes, but on much smaller scale, because Free Market tends to minimize, while aggressive violence of the state to maximize these flaws. It is very logical: evil begets more evil. Justice, that is good, that is Non-Aggression, is the only solution.
Keeping in mind of course that even with an existing government other alternatives are possible, which are devoid of both corporatism and fascism.
Yes. But only if you remove the aggressive violence of the state (read taxation).
…Or otherwise, simply prevent by statute greed, intervention, and meddling—including preferential lobbying—by those in government and both corporatism and fascism cease to remain.
If stolen loot of taxation is involved, nothing will help, until the plunder of taxation ends. That is the great engine of corruption that enables all these crimes regardless the “statutes.”
Walmart does not threaten me with aggression or violence.
Right. The government reserves that to itself. That’s why it is evil.
I eat organic, and soft drink companies, for example, do not come to my home and demand that I purchase a 12-pack or else there is going to be trouble.
Hence, the culprit here is corporate greed. And without a governing body to step in and smack their hands away from the proverbial cookie jar every once in a while, they will steadily get only worse, while realizing more and more power throughout society.
You, by refusing to shop there, influence their behavior. As more people demand organic, Walmart will oblige. They already do have some organic products in my Walmart!
For example, without government intervention there would be absolutely nothing other than arranging buying prices to prevent Google-Walmart-Monsanto-Xfinity-Apple-Chase-Xe from teaming up and buying out the whole continent of North America, establishing a corporate military, and presuming national command as a brand new classification of oligarchy government intend of waging strategic advantage of the then so-called “free markets” to their favor in every way, while they ascend themselves as man-kings above society.
While such danger hypothetically exists, though unlikely, it is ALREADY absolute certainty with the current government! Once again, aggressive violence of the state magnifies all the ills and problems of society, while Free Market would have minimized them.
“If by “taxation” you mean public taxation of private property, then your statement is an oxymoron (self-contradiction). You are saying: “And without a form of government and a system of INJUSTICE and LEGALIZED PLUNDER thus enabling it to properly function there can be no justice.” That is an oxymoron. You are contradicting yourself.”
Really now, is that what I had wrote… OK, I just double checked and it was not. You must be confusing me with someone else.
That is exactly what you wrote, I just substituted true meaning for your nice sounding phrases that belie
the stark and sinister reality that:
“taxation” = “
INJUSTICE and LEGALIZED PLUNDER.” I could have added “Aggressive Violence” and “Evil.” It would be just as correct.
“You cannot insure justice with injustice.”
Justice like freedom is not free, somebody has to pay the cost of enforcing justice;
Yes. Just like with the price of milk or bread, Free Market sorts that out nicely, and most importantly JUSTLY.
such is usually achieved with the revenue collected through various methods of taxation levied upon the populace.
So you are going to prevent plunder by committing the plunder first, on organized and grand scale? That’s why I said, You cannot insure justice with injustice.
The only type of justice that costs nothing is known as mob-rule
Nobody said it costs nothing. As any valuable service people will willingly pay for it in a Free Market, the only just way to deliver any product or service.
Once more, justice is one thing entirely unrelated to what is the free market. You are addressing two entirely distinctive concepts as if they were synonymous.
They are synonymous, and I have proven it. One more time:
Free Market = absence of aggressive violence = Justice.
All three are equivalent to each other. Free Market means “free from aggressive violence,” which in turn is the definition of Justice itself.
Being that the very same greed, self-interest, bloodlust, and authoritarianism would transfer over under anarchism, although would now become unchecked through the absence of an organized, responsible power structure.
Free Market is sublimely organized and responsive, much more profoundly than the government. Just consider the coordination it takes to produce a pencil, or a sandwich or a computer, and then deliver it to you! It is truly mind boggling, and it all occurs spontaneously by people being moved with self-interest. That is the majesty of the invisible hand of Free Market in operation. So, there will be organized and responsible power structure. Responsible to who? To the consumers of course. The consumers will pay for the service of security and justice enforcement IF they value the service, and believe me they will value the service because it is essential, and Free Market is the ONLY just way to deliver it!
I shall prefer to allow our Founding Fathers speak on this closing point for me:
Good idea! I’ll do the same:
"Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question." --Thomas Jefferson: 1st Inaugural, 1801.
“It is easier to find people fit to govern themselves than people to govern others. Every man is the best, the most responsible, judge of his own advantage.” – Lord Acton