From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Nov 13 2002 - 14:55:03 MST
--- Rafal Smigrodzki <rms2g@virginia.edu> wrote:
> Mike Lorrey wrote:
> > --- Rafal Smigrodzki <rms2g@virginia.edu> wrote:
> >> Daniel Ust wrote:
> >>
> >>> All archist systems, after all, ultimately arose from anarchic
> >>> ones.)
> >>
> >> ### Exactly. Why do anarchies inevitably evolve into states?
> >
> > Because most anarchies in history have evolved in non-Bayesian
> > environments.
>
> ### Elaborate?
Historical, and pre-historical, anarchies evolved without information
network technologies, thereby preventing the establishment of a
Bayesian environment of sufficient information needed to maintain an
informed and educated populace.
> >
> > This is one reason why I generally oppose the free-immigration wing
> of
> > libertarians. A high trust libertarian society can only remains
> stable
> > so long as all or most members are high trust individuals, where
> > they've bought into the validity of the high trust condition and
> the
> > demand for personal responsibility it entails.
>
> ### Agreed. However, how do you insure the control of immigration,
> without some sort of coercive intervention? A system all but
> indistinguishable from
> a state will evolve as soon as there are enough citizens willing to
> stop immigration.
A fence is not coercive, any more than my sidearm is coercing you into
not killing me. Georgism is an invalid and dead concept, and should
stay that way.
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