From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lcrocker@mercury.colossus.net)
Date: Mon Mar 22 1999 - 12:44:57 MST
> Anarcho-capitalism relies on complex market mechanisms to restrain the
> initiation of the use of force by PPAs and other power groups. If these
> mechanisms fail, or if they turn out not to work in practice, there is
> simply nothing left to back them up.
What methods do states use to restrain the initiation of force by
the state, and what backs them up if those methods fail? I can think
of only two such means: jury nullification and armed rebellion (I do
not include elections or recall, because they are more likely to
support the majority's use of violence than to restrain it). Do you
think "complex market mechanisms" are less stable or in some other
way inferior to those methods?
While it is true that anarcho-capitalism is untried (I am not as
enamored of the Icelandic example as is Dr. Friedman), the methods
of the market itself are well-understood, well-tested, and wildly
successful. The methods of statism are well-understood, well-
tested, and are universally miserable failures.
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