From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Sat Nov 16 2002 - 05:14:47 MST
Rafal Smigrodzki wrote:
>Samantha Atkins wrote:
>
>
>
>>>### Imagine your neighbor starts growing apples on his land, and
>>>invites a few thousands of poor, totally untrustworthy people to
>>>work his farm. He makes good money, better than you. Soon there is a
>>>sizable number of farmers, who although initially staunch anarchists
>>>and libertarians, find having peons on their land is good for
>>>business. It is difficult for you to compete with them, and soon
>>>your fence and sidearm are no longer up to date.
>>>
>>>One day the peons get restive. The owner of the land which they are
>>>working sits idly as a bunch of them, armed with bigger and better
>>>guns, cross your fence, and tell you to get lost, or else.
>>>
>>>Tell me, how is the anarchic society going to prevent this scenario.
>>>
>>>Rafal
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>With binding arbitration enforced by the local citizenry. Your
>>property rights were obviously violated and initiation of force was
>>made. What makes you think these dirt farmers could come up with
>>bigger and better guns anyway?
>>
>>
>>
>### Well, imagine there are 25,000 initial libertarian settlers, who own all
>the land. One thousand of them let in 1000 peons each (running away from
>neighboring evil tyrannies). The peons are happy, they finally have enough
>money to each buy a gun. Do you think that the 24,000 libertarians would be
>a match for 1 x 10e6 peons?
>
What reason to these people have to resort to force? It is a rational
society. If they can outwork or out-produce me then they will soon own
some of the land themselves. The upwardly mobile seldom need to resort
to force in rebellion.
>How would they enforce the arbitration and
>against whom? The peon-importers? The peons themselves? The free gun makers
>who sell 24,000 guns to the libertarians and one million guns for the peons?
>
>
Enforcement against initiation of force is always against those who
initiated the force. Nothing else makes sense.
- samantha
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