Anarchist: 'Look, if all the power-hungry psychopaths would just pinky-swear not to become despotic warlords, we wouldn't need any government.'pic.twitter.com/36tmJbI6tv
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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.
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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Your criticism might be that it would inevitably become a protection racket. But there are private security agencies that are not rackets. These could become tyrannical, but then again governments often become tyrannical.
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Current private security agencies aren't rackets because they have no right to commit violence beyond self-defense, and if they did do so the State would prosecute them. In any case, it's a tautology - the entity that physically controls an area is the "State".
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While we are discussing utopias, I’ll take any move toward AnCapistan. Minarchism will suit until we have better institutions of governance
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Like "our police force protects you from the Mafia"?
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