Re: Private armies

den Otter (neosapient@geocities.com)
Mon, 14 Dec 1998 19:42:06 +0100

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> From: Dick.Gray@bull.com
> Emmanuel Charpentier <manu@cybercable.fr> asks:
>
> >How could an anarcho-capitalist nation deal with an outside
> >aggression???
>
> >Can competing entreprises or individuals offer the same level of
> >service than a one block organisation, like the army?
>
> Remember the American Revolution, Emmanuel? The populace didn't need a
> government to drive off the British aggressors, they took up arms of
their
> own volition - and the rest is history.
>
> Too bad the revolution has been consistently betrayed by the government
> that was set up specifically to perpetuate it.

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> From: Dick.Gray@bull.com
> Emmanuel Charpentier <manu@cybercable.fr> = asks:
>
> >How could an anarcho-capitalist nation deal = with an outside
> >aggression???
>
> >Can = competing entreprises or individuals offer the same level of
> = >service than a one block organisation, like the army?
> =
> Remember the American Revolution, Emmanuel? The populace didn't = need a
> government to drive off the British aggressors, they took = up arms of their
> own volition - and the rest is history.
> =
> Too bad the revolution has been consistently betrayed by the = government
> that was set up specifically to perpetuate = it.

And there you have it: a power vacuum will *always* be filled = by some
new form of government. Anarchy is inherently unstable due to = human
nature (we freedom-loving individualists are a small = minority).

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