Re: Libertarian theory breaking down

From: Amara Graps (amara@amara.com)
Date: Fri Mar 21 2003 - 07:01:42 MST

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    >### 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.

    yes, and...? I don't think that this is inconsistent with his
    political anarchocapitalist position. He has many places in his
    book where he points out difficulties (I've read the book too.)

    However, your comment, Rafal, doesn't connect with my comment
    that I don't think that there are ways to distinguish libertarians
    from anarchists, libertarians being the larger category.

    Amara

    BTW, A central government.. of any kind.. provides a big fat target
    for any kind of aggression. If your society consists of a network
    of inconsequential nodes, then where do any possible aggressors
    attack? A network of nodes have little need of a defense against
    organized external aggression.



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