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No, read Holcombe : In the absence of a state, evil people become bandits, which in due course are supplanted by mobs, and finally governments -- the least destructive and most stable form of coercive order. BTW, I found the Leeson & Stringham critique and Holcombe's rebuttal here .
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Looks like Randall Holcombe expounded my core objection in his 2004 essay, " Government: Unnecessary but Inevitable ." To be fair, Leeson and Stringham offered a strong critique of Holcombe's arguments. Holcombe supposedly responded to the critique but I can't find that online yet.
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[quote user="MacFall"] Organized crime syndicates would be utterly powerless if the government didn't create vast black markets for them to operate in by outlawing peaceful activities. Without the state, they couldn't exist. [/quote] Sheesh, this "The state is the root of all evil" rejoinder is getting tired. There are evil
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The Fully Informed Jury Assocation (FIJA) is dedicated to this theory.
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You all seem to be taking a myopic view of the legal system. If we are talking about criminal law (i.e., dealing with whether aggression is justified, and how to punish it if it is not) and private defense firms then we can ground this discussion in real world examples: Organized crime syndicates (think of the mafia) are for-profit defense associations
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But can an individual take out a contract in which he essentially surrenders his liberty if he fails to comply? I.e., can two parties enter into and enforce a contract in which one agrees to be the perpetual slave of the other if he defaults?
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Seems like the only proposals are coming from anarchists, and their consensus seems to be: 1. There is no principled basis to take preemptive action against someone acquiring or holding an asymmetric weapon. 2. Nevertheless, most people probably will use force to preempt other people from acquiring asymmetric weapons. I.e., in practice, "Might
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[quote user="Sage"] Let me point out that I am not advocating no justice or security, but rather private justice and security. If you grant minarchism, i.e. that private production is more efficient than government production in roads, education, health care, etc., then the onus is on you to show that private production is not more efficient
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[quote user="Maxliberty"] You are missing the point of a free society. The next door neighbor with explosives isn't everyone's problem, it's your problem. Answer your own question, you live in a free society and your next door neighbor is building a truck bomb, what are you going to do? What things could you have done to prevent
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[quote user="Twilight"] But I think I already did provide an answer. Restrictive, voluntary convenants could provide the kind of security you are asking about. I'm not suggesting that people would be forced to agree to such a covenant - on the contrary, I provided a counterexample of nuke lovers all lovingly nestled together and living