I haven't read it. I'm for a Nozickian 'night watchman state'; I just want the watchmen to be vigilant against warlords.
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What Mike Huemer and other libertarian anarchists say is that we'd still have voluntary protective agencies to protect us from such people.
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Every warlord says they're protecting you from other warlords. It's called a protection racket, and it's a very primitive, capricious, and unstable form of government.
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With apologies to Godwin, Hitler was democratically elected.
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The trick is engineering a governance system, infused with a certain culture, that can both resist Hitlerean personalities (and less extreme forms of corruption, as exists in the U.S. today) *and* keep people in a given area safe from external threats. Still working on that...
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Sums up the anarchist position very well.... But indeed, psychopaths should be banned from all positions of power everywhere.
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How do 'ban' them, beyond making them pinky-swear?
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Any chance of stable anarchy--a notion I remain skeptical of--would have to emerge from technological innovation making the centralization of power infeasible. Keep an eye on the crypto-anarchists.
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Anarchy is a negation to ppl claiming ownership of you. This stems from the belief of self-ownership. I rule myself. I take responsibility for the consequences of my actions. If someone violates the rights to myself & my property, I retort accordingly.
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