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"Anarchy is the completion, not the negation, of the rule of law." - Long
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A magical parchment will protect individual rights more effectively than a competitive institutional structure of checks and balances. Competing protection agencies will battle, so we need to establish one super-agency that has the ability to plunder everyone more thoroughly than any private agency ever could.
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Anarchism is constitutionalism .
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The market will take care of it. But seriously, it seems you're still stuck in a central planning mindset. You have to recognize that there is no one-size-fits-all solution to the problems you mention. A more appropriate way to approach the issue would be to ask "What are some ways that people under anarchy could solve these problems?"
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[quote user="Merlin"]Aren’t we all supposed to allow for every non-coercive action? What is left there to discuss?[/quote] Left-libertarians argue that justice has commitments beyond merely opposing rights-violations. They oppose the "anything that's voluntary" position that would condone oppressive yet non-rights-violating
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[quote user="laminustacitus"]Warlord Inc. is not going to care about their reputation when they align with Heavy Weapons R Us and create a cartel in order to force consumers to pay tribute to them; all that they are going to care about is how much fire power they can bring down upon anybody who challenges their will. Therefore, your argument
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"Google is not a search engine. Google is a reputation-management system." - from The See-Through CEO . This is a great article on how the internet makes companies more responsive to consumers. Now that vast amounts of information are available at the click of a button, companies that try to cheat or abuse their customers must face the wrath
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Art Carden talked about this at Mises University: Short Selling: Explanation and Defense .
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[quote user="scineram"]Anarchy isn't coming anytime soon.[/quote] Not with that attitude.
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This thread should be renamed "Question for Libertarians" since minarchists are also opposed to the FDA.