From: meekerdb <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Friday, January 9, 2015 2:45 PM
Subject: Re: Democracy
On 1/9/2015 1:08 PM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List wrote:
From: meekerdb <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Friday, January 9, 2015 12:25 PM
Subject: Re: Democracy
On 1/9/2015 4:55 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote:
Money becomes coercive under statism, because it becomes illegal to use
alternative currencies, operate outside of the banking and taxation system and
so on.
>>Banks used to issue their own script and in principle anyone could do it.
>>The trouble with anarcho-capitalism is that there's nothing to prevent a
>>group from organizing, forming a "government", raising an army a conquering
>>people around them. In fact that's exactly the arc of history. If you want
>>anarchy you can go to Syria or Somalia right now.
What you describe is not the political philosophy of anarchy; what you
describe is life under warlords, and the susceptibility of anarchy to such
organized groups of thugs.
Functioning anarchy would require a level of individual ethics that does not
yet exist (or at least is not widespread). Anarchy is vulnerable to being
destroyed by thuggery and mayhem; no doubt about that; however it should not be
confused with that heartless outcome.
>>Every form of government will work well with perfect people.
That is side-stepping the point that some forms of social organization require
a much higher degree of civic involvement than others do. A brutal dictatorship
does not require consent or participation from (most at least) of its subjects;
whereas a functioning democracy would instead depend on a more informed and
socially active citizenry.-Chris
Brent
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