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Brutus Posted: Sat, May 7 2011 11:35 PM

In an anarcho-capitalist society, you own an acre of land with a house on it. All the land around you in a mile radius is for sale, and someone buys it. One morning when you wake up, you realize someone built a 100 ft tall 5 ft thick cement wall around your acre of land. However, you need to get beyond the wall to survive as your acre of land offers no means of survival. You have no machinery which would allow you to climb up or climb higher than the wall, and supplies are running low. What do you do?

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This matter would get solved just like any other manner today would get solved.... the difference is, is that an anarchist society would have the services private. These hypothetical examples do get quite tiresome, to be honest. It is just plain fact that markets are far more efficient and productive than any type of central planning institution.

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William replied on Sat, May 7 2011 11:56 PM

If that was an actual sociological problem, that society wouldn't exist.  Every sociological theory assumes that society is co-operating "within reason".  The overall point is that custom would evolve well enough to prevent such problems from arising in a broad sociological context.

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William replied on Sun, May 8 2011 12:07 AM

If you are asking personally:

how can any of us speculate about positions we are not expecting nor ever have expected to face - and more over what would it have to do with any social theory?  This seems odd to me

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In the UK an anarcho capitalist society would probably still owe its legaility to common law and it is impossible  in common law to render a parcel of land inaccessable.Every plot of land has its access points noted  and if someone buys a plot of land with someone elses access on it then they are informed of that access before they buy it. This comes under the broad term of 'easement'.

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Autolykos replied on Tue, May 10 2011 7:41 AM

As AaronBurr noted, I had already established (via homesteading) an easement of right-of-way through that land.

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