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[quote user="Colin Kirby"] If I was a billionaire I could buy slaves and pay to have people murdered (even in Libertopia). [/quote] Possibly. That would depend on the sort of law/social norms that our hypothetical free society generated wouldn't it? [quote user="Colin Kirby"]Just because something is provided in a market does
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I don't see why a system for the punishment of wrongdoers would require any moral justification once it had been tested by the market. Perhaps things would be very different in a free society, but I don't find myself currently having to justify my market preferences to anyone. Why would things be different in a freer society? Wouldn't the
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Are you saying that you read that question as a veiled threat? Is it possible you're being hypersensitive?
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Lol k.
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[quote user="Autolykos"] Is that a threat? [/quote] It was a question.
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I think it might be a just conflict under the NAP. But isn't there a potential problem figuring out who (in particular) is really violating your property rights to begin with? Wouldn't you have to target those people in particular to avoid becoming an aggressor yourself?
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Who would you even be revolting against? Are you sure that's a fight you really want?
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@OP, I wouldn't say that the state, particularly the state as we know it today, is inevitable. I would say that there are certain evolved features of human nature which make states possible and that they can't easily be changed. Perhaps through extensive education (or gene tampering in the future) they can be controlled or repressed but my inclination
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I'm just trying to figure out what happened. It's entirely possible that the police shot innocent bystanders by accident. But then maybe this guy had an extra magazine and he reloaded after shooting his co-worker. They did say he put the gun into a bag, he might've had more ammo in there. Just saying.
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Did the shooter have more than one magazine?