got tonkaed wrote:assuming he is an anarcho-capitalist, which there was one really good example once -he was pretty awesome, i dont think he would be sold yet, as he is supposing any one of the 4 can still occur without the state appartus as he would likely put it.

I don't follow.

What services do you take, if you're not minding my asking? There is no reason to believe that particular institutions that provide services that the government monopolizes could not possibly arise in a free society.

Meh... I'll play.

(1) I have a job as a tax attorney because governments tax ...

There is no reason to believe that particular institutions that provide services that the government monopolizes could not possibly arise in a free society.
Nor is there any reason to believe that a free society could ever exist. Except in films like the Road Warrior...

You're obfuscating my ...

I reject all government; government in the most basic sense is predicated on the elitist mentality that people aren't fit to rule themselves, so we must (paradoxically) place people into positions of special and unquestionable power to take care of people.
Government in the most basic sense is ...

I think an awful lot of bad economics are making themselves present in this thread. For one, you're all making the classic mistake of assuming that outputs will always be static; there is absolutely no empirical data or rational reason to even consider this an idea of merit, and it is precisely why ...

But, anarchojesse, (and, yes, I am very familiar with your argument) aren't people stupid?

Any pessimistic assessment of humanity must equally apply to people under the State as well. So I suppose the person who should be asking whether or not people are stupid are the same people who advocate ...

Do you reject all government or the United States government?

For purposes of completion, I have no problem with anyone burning a flag.

I reject all government; government in the most basic sense is predicated on the elitist mentality that people aren't fit to rule themselves, so we must ...

Because I'm not interested in hijacking a thread (much less hijacking a thread with thousands of posts and pages), I figured I would start a thread to respond to a question posed by a. sub. So no context is removed, I'm going to quote my post and his response:

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I had no idea Malthusian hysteria was making a comeback.

Kinda homoerotic.

"The plight of the Jews in German-occupied Europe, which many people thought was at the heart of the war against the Axis, was not a chief concern of Roosevelt. Henry Feingold's research ( The Politics of Rescue ) shows that, while the Jews were being put in camps and the process of annihilation was ...

If I might interject, I think anything that is peer-reviewed is universally acceptable until a later discovery proves otherwise.