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You're just playing with the definitions here. By country, I mean the geographical region that was previously India or China. And as for taxing and spending where necessary, I'm sure you're including all the terrible things the govts of the world do like waging warfare overseas and imposing...

Just curious, Slidey why do you think that a world govt will have trouble with 6 to 10 billion anymore than it would with 2 or 3 billion? Would the size of the govt not scale to 'expand the coverage' so to speak? I think the number of people isn't the issue so much as having their support is...

Just to expand from what jennyfromdabloc said: http://anarchyinyourhead.com/2009/02/02/the-slave-test/ - Take the slave test!

Scuba steve, I'm effectively an ACist myself so my questions weren't really directed towards you. Roderick Long considers himself more on the left wing side of libertarianism. Kevin Carson has his own slightly different views, like his belief in the Labor Theory of Value - while effectively...

Ok so first off let me dispel the notion that anarcho-capitalism is purely a 'right wing' ideology. Roderick T Long or Kevin Carson - both are examples of people who come under the category of left-libertarian, and yet they are still for the free market and the abolition of government. It's just...

I think the main reason this is really stupid is because drink driving is already a crime.

I guess I could think like that... but I prefer to look at ways to improve our situation by trying to find a consistent rule that can be applied. I think libertarianism/ACism is mostly consistent and it's definitely way more consistent than what we have now: - You own property if you were the...

Slidey, care to elaborate on the relevance of all the stuff about the state and document formatting?

No you're ignoring what I said about how like 200 people (politicians) get to decide when 20+ million people must go to war and pay for it. That doesn't happen under ACism. Why? Because it's costly (usually to the point where it costs more to take the land than what the resources are worth)...

Vikraman, once again, pathological hypothetical imo (how many people are there that literally have zero contactable relatives?) but I'll humour you: (1) First off, he does not get off scot free, his reputation goes thru the gutter and people won't want to do business with him, eg. he may lose...

But clearly if he's a murderer then you never know if he might turn on you someday. It represents a massive extra risk and people would choose not to deal with him because of this. I say this because typically people point to Bill Gates for these crazy hypotheticals about ultra rich people. But...

As an AC person I obviously agree with the idea of property rights based crimes as opposed to crimes being defined by the government, it generally means the focus is more on restitution, rather than punishment for punishment's sake imo. Also, people who are whinging about the so called...

I know you're just trolling, but there has been talk about potentially doing "double decker" or triple decker roads, with multiple levels being owned by different companies. Similar to how the different stores in malls lease their space from the mall owner. It's mentioned in Walter Block's...

One thing I might add for protection of the poor, you could have a system poor people can 'sell' the right to prosecute for crimes committed against them. ie. some rich person will 'buy' their case at a discount to what the poor person might be expected to get, and prosecute for the money...

Loquasagacious (1) I think the difference between what the international system's "anarchism" is and ACism as I understand it is that there are very big decisions being made by such a small percentage of the population. It goes back to that thing about how 200 guys get to decide when the...

Just a quick link I want to post before I have to run off to work: http://mises.org/journals/jls/3_1/3_1_2.pdf - An American Experiment in Anarcho-Capitalism: The Not so Wild, Wild West

There is an extremely simple answer to this: If people WANT to be controlled by external forces, then there is nothing stopping them voluntarily subscribing or joining an association that is "state like".

Chelsea girl, the point is not that people will magically change into angels w/o govt. The point is that at least w/o govt, this is one less avenue for people to push their costs onto other people unfairly and rule over them. This point is about delegitimisation of the power to rule over other...

Ok, to make the example work better, I will automatically deduct $1000 from his account. Whether he chooses it or not. Happy now?