On 1/9/2015 3:11 PM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List wrote:
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*From:* meekerdb <[email protected]>
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*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:
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*From:* meekerdb <[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]>
*To:* [email protected] <mailto:[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.
Exactly, and anarchy that functions as well as constitutionally limited democracy would
require angels.
Brent
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