From: den Otter (neosapient@geocities.com)
Date: Mon Dec 14 1998 - 11:42:06 MST
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> From: Dick.Gray@bull.com
> Emmanuel Charpentier <manu@cybercable.fr> asks:
>
> >How could an anarcho-capitalist nation deal with an outside
> >aggression???
>
> >Can competing entreprises or individuals offer the same level of
> >service than a one block organisation, like the army?
>
> Remember the American Revolution, Emmanuel? The populace didn't need a
> government to drive off the British aggressors, they took up arms of
their
> own volition - and the rest is history.
>
> Too bad the revolution has been consistently betrayed by the government
> that was set up specifically to perpetuate it.
And there you have it: a power vacuum will *always* be filled by some
new form of government. Anarchy is inherently unstable due to human
nature (we freedom-loving individualists are a small minority).
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