From: Andrew Clough (aclough@mit.edu)
Date: Fri Mar 21 2003 - 09:39:08 MST
At 09:32 AM 3/21/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 05:24, Amara Graps wrote:
> > Hal:
> > >There is a distinction between libertarians and anarchists. Most
> > >libertarians believe that government should exist and take on certain
> > >limited, well-defined functions.
> >
> > I'm a little surprised to hear this 'distinction' as I thought
> > that some non-trivial percentage of libertarians subscribed to
> > anarchocapitalist ideas (as I do). For example, David Friedman
> > distinguished himself from his father (Milton) occasionally, his
> > father subscribing to a minimal government position and his son
> > not subscribing to that position, both men are libertarians,
> > however. Like other anarchocapitalists, I find no find no
> > conflict being both an anarchist and a libertarian.
> >
>### 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.
>
>Rafal
Perhaps you could get something workable if the private security companies
gave rebates to people who joined their "national guard" units? I
certainly wouldn't want to trust a company that couldn't protect me from
even an invasion by Albania. Public mutual defense pacts betwen providers
would help if a bigger fish decided to invade.
I'm not an anarcho-capitalist myself, but I'm pretty sympathetic to the
idea - and thinking of how it could work is just plain fun.
Never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity. Don't assign
to stupidity what might be due to ignorance. And try not to assume you
opponent is the ignorant one-until you can show it isn't you.
-M.N. Plano
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