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[quote user="Peter Cohen"]And I myself have never been able to see how the total privatization of law and security would not turn into armed gangs enforcing their street corners and demanding protection money [/quote] It's really very simple. Whereas the state has a herd of tax cattle from which it can appropriate the resources needed
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[quote user="BobT"] I've actually asked marxists if they would rather have everyone be poor and equal, or have no one be poor but have large differences in wealth, and been told that they would rather everyone be equal, even if it meant being poor...[/quote] I think this is due to something basic in leftists' psyche. It's why they
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See the Bio on his profile.
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[quote user="fezwhatley"]schools, roads, health care, welfare, and a military[/quote] People have gone without these things (certainly by means of government provision) for most of human history, so ipso facto they are not "basic" in any sense.
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Indeed. I mean, just why do they think we advocate the market in the first place? The fact of human fallibility is one of the strongest defenses in favor freedom.
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They are obsessed with public transit for the same reason they are obsessed with public education and public healthcare: it forces an arbitrary standard onto society for the dual purposes of disincentivizing competition and making everyone equal(ly miserable).
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[quote user="Stephanie Bond"]How is "resolution of conflict" NOT the purpose of "governing"? Or should I say, its proper purpose?[/quote] Government does not try to resolve conflicts, per se, but prevent them (if this were not the case it could not really be called a government). The inherent contradiction here is that
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[quote user="wilderness"]Yet, Natural Law does govern, and an individual reasoning Natural Law comes to such conclusions that property rights are good.[/quote] Natural law is not something that need be written down, as it is something that just happens. This is clearly different from the laws of a particular legal system which are contingent
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[quote user="Stephanie Bond"] Looks like we're in agreement so far. This is the same fundamental principle I suggest should serve as The Law that governs everyone. In order to have rational non-coercive government, there must first be a principle by which everyone is to be governed.[/quote] That's just the problem. The purpose of law
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[quote user="Dondoolee"]Does anyone know the background of the right wing/authoritarians/hawks/imperialists/conservatives being, at least in rhetoric,on the side that is seen as "advocating the free market more?" At least when it comes to more mainstream exposure. [/quote] There is a definite method to their madness: the market produces