Quoth Brian Holtz: > To be a minarchist is to be an optimist about the institutional > design of states, and to be an anarchist is to be an optimist about human > nature.
I'm an anarchist because I'm a realist about both human nature and the institutional design of states. To wit, I note a human capacity for evil, observe the attractions of power for those in which said capacity is most manifest, and therefore think it a really, really bad idea to centralize/institutionalize power (i.e. compose a state). It's like putting a pie on a window sill, knowing that the back yard is full of pie thieves. Tom Knapp
