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To Merlin: I don't understand. Lets take San Diego. The defense insurance agencies must defend all of San Diego, the entire city. They cannot just defend the insured blocks. I don't know what other than a collective standing army can stop the invasion in a comfortable manner. I do not doubt that guerilla defense would succeed, but all states
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Thanks for that. Dominant assurance and payment based on the time of payment sound interesting and like they could influence. But the problem still sticks out: economic robo-man won't ever sign a dominant assurance contract, he'll just try to free ride, he'll go to the wall. I saw your post and you seem to view ostracism as statist, and
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I'm not sure what you mean. The defense has to be paid before any war, preferably to deter war altogether. A long-term contract would only delay existing customers of the defense-paying insurance agencies, it wouldn't prevent it forever, and it wouldn't prevent people in the area who have no war insurance altogether from buying the undercutter's
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I've been stepping through the problem of war insurance funding a defense in a stateless society. The snag I've come to is this: You have insurance companies insuring lots of people for war damages against attacks from other states. From this perspective, there is no free-rider problem since it's just a payment guarantee in case of attack