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[quote]The state (with its uniform legal system and enforcement) can protect my freedom and property from attacks launched by any other agent from within and from outside the country. In anarchy, anyone with more power than myself can come and take everything I own, including my freedom (slavery) and I would have no recourse whatsoever.[/quote] I'm
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[quote]I think that Liberty Student put it best when he said that perhaps it's just not worth arguing.[/quote] It sounds like it. He seems to be arguing that people are not rational, by imagining a world in which people are not rational. At some point, you have to stop and say, "I disagree that these conditions would ever exist in the real
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[quote]In this case, we are in an anarchic society and the fact of the matter is that the majority of a town for some reason colludes to deny a certain minority race to compete against them, or own property, through the use of force (they have monopolized force in that town). Had there been a larger government they would have been able to force integration
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I didn't find Human Action to be a difficult read at all, having only read snippets of Rothbard, Hazlitt, Bastiat, Block, etc. beforehand. It can be a little hard to get into, as he spends a good amount of pages defining praxeology before getting into the "exciting" stuff, but after that I found it easy and enjoyable. Personally, I've
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First: Statists are stupid. I don't think your friend gave a satisfactory answer to your challenge. He has imagined a town in which the vast majority is violently racist; why would the town's government not reflect this racism? Why should we expect legislators, themselves elected by the racists, to make a law with which the majority do not agree
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She makes a pretty compelling case for privatization. Or are we supposed to regard entrepreneurship as a bad thing?