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To: Cathryn Crawford
This assumes, like Communism, that people are basically good. Communism assumes that everybody will work hard to better society as a whole. This "idea" assumes that every one will behave themselves if there are no rules.

Balderdash on both ideas. Government is not what he is offended by, it's society. The very idea that we as humans need or desire to work with others is anathema to his proposal. He is the anti-Donne, where all men are islands and bridges are shackels.

13 posted on 12/09/2003 2:17:27 PM PST by Anitius Severinus Boethius
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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius
This assumes, like Communism, that people are basically good.

Actually, no it doesn't. Why else advocate for everyone carrying their own firearms and not trusting anyone with power over you in the form of a government? Because on the whole, people will tend towards the role of "might makes Right". Self government pre-supposes indoctrination in individualistic objective Rights that you would no more infringe on than another would presume to infringe on yours.

Not a bad system. Very elegant. And utterly impractical in todays societal climate. People really ARE too friggin' stupid and childish to act morally without at least a minimum of government. People like this author, and even me in my weaker moments, feel that those incapable of acting morally would soon be weeded out in an anarcho-capitalistic system. I just think that there will always be more weeds than gardeners to pull them.

Voluntary association is dying. Political Correctness forced on us by government is killing it. So how is it "society" he hates?

48 posted on 12/09/2003 3:02:02 PM PST by Dead Corpse (For an Evil Super Genius, you aren't too bright are you?)
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