-----Original Message-----
From: mark@unicorn.com <mark@unicorn.com>
To: extropians@extropy.com <extropians@extropy.com>
Date: 11 December 1998 15:20
Subject: BASICS: Anarcho-capitalism
>Joe E. Dees [jdees0@students.uwf.edu] wrote:
>>In such a case, ANY government would be susceptible to the charge
>>of extortion, laissez-faire representative democracy or otherwise. "I
>>didn't vote for it" would prevent ANY government from collecting ANY
>>taxes needed for ANYthing - even to hire water or food inspectors,
>>or defend borders, or vaccinate children, or even to exist.
>
>Yes. You seem to be getting it. You do realise that this is a list full of
>anarchists, don't you?
Not entirely full. There appear to be a few non-anarchists about the place.
>I don't particularly care about "improving"
>government because I dislike all forms of government; admittedly there
>are a bunch of libertarians on the list who believe in extremely limited
>government (e.g. defence, etc)
What is your answer to the bombing question?
ie - if you want to pay for defence against enemy bombers, but your
neighbour doesn't, how do we defend one of you and not the otehr - and if we
can't, do we just let your neighbour get away with something for nothing.
Samael