From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Wed Mar 19 2003 - 13:03:36 MST
On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 08:10:06AM -0800, Lee Corbin wrote:
>
> My explanation of this phenomenon (if true, of course), is that
> most people came to libertarianism from somewhere, and issues
> that more directly involve our feelings are liable to expose
> this origin.
Maybe it is because there is no "pure" libertarian position on this
war. I can see libertarians reach very different conclusions on whether
this is initiation of force or not, and these conclusions will largely
be based on issues external to libertarian ideology (like how much you
trust the evidence given by different groups, interpretations of
international law etc).
This reminds me of another interesting issue: warfare in a world where
actual libertarian areas exist. In a sf setting I participated writing
in, one of the major space wars was complicated by the fact that one of
the participants was a libertarian alliance where individual members (be
they nations, worlds, companies or individuals) decided for themselves
whether to participate, how much and on what side; as long as they did
not hit any other member of the alliance they were free to side with
whoever they wanted. So it was never an issue of whether the alliance
was at war or not, but rather what percentage of it and in what
direction. Enemies found that they better be careful about who they
attacked, since they might attack a previously non-participating group
and now invoke its PPLs, mutual defense pacts and insurance company. At
least one system was invaded by a company-leased fleet as restitution
for an insurance claim.
The current paradigms of nation-nation warfare are not even working well
these days, let alone when dealing with nation-network warfare. Just
imagine the chaos when we get network-network warfare.
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