From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rms2g@virginia.edu)
Date: Wed Oct 02 2002 - 06:56:15 MDT
Charles Hixson wrote:
Competing gangs of
> hoodlums are also worse than most governments. And consider Cambodia
> during the Pot Pol era. I don't know just how you want to classify
> that, but the people were certainly being oppressed by "no
> government". One of the reasons for preferring min-archy.
### Competing gangs of hoodlums are governments, except in name, at least
until one of them beats down the others (as in Cambodia). Then you have a
gang of hoodlums without competition, and these usually call themselves
"government".
But quibbling aside, I am minarchist, too.
Rafal
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