Re: Libertarian theory breaking down

From: John K Clark (jonkc@att.net)
Date: Fri Mar 21 2003 - 09:18:02 MST

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    "Rafal Smigrodzki" <rafal@smigrodzki.org>

    > Reading the "Machinery of freedom" it seems to me that David
    > Friedman wasn't able to come up with a plausible anarchist solution to
    > the problem of defense against organized external aggression, and he
    > admits it.

    I thought Friedman’s solution was very clever and might even work, but no
    guarantees of course, and I agree it was the weakest part of the book. So it
    could turn out that the only purpose of nations is to protect themselves
    from other nations.

            John K Clark jonkc@att.net



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