Emmanuel Charpentier <manu@cybercable.fr> wrote:
>I think the difference capitalism/socialism is about
>competition/cooperation.
No, it's about peaceful means versus armed force, at least in practice. Socialism is just as competitive as a free market, it's just that socialist competition is at the point of a gun rather than by consumer choice.
>And there might be times when nationwide
>cooperation is necessary. War time? Fight against disease? Talks with
>other groups of people?
When cooperation is necessary, people cooperate; they don't need someone to make them cooperate. Forced "cooperation" is not cooperation in any meaningful sense.
>So, I go for a government that would primarily have two
>responsibilities: defense and diplomacy. Or do you think enterprises
>could manage that too???
Any legitimate service a government provides can be done much more efficiently and cheaply in a free market, and without any coercion.
Dick