[Doctor Doom]

Great article, ST. I always wonder why people can't understand concept of spontaneous ordering when we see it every day in aa free market, or why 90 percent of our ills happen because of, in tribute to, or on the tragic commons.

If, as statists content, all men are fallible and thus incapable of self-governance, then why would a group of them be any more capable?

Rational anarchist bump.

[ctdonath2]

why people can't understand concept of spontaneous ordering when we see it every day in aa free market

It works in the free market because there's a force ready to beat the crap out of anyone who steals, murders, destroys or otherwise does something centrally detrimental to the free market. You can't participate in a free market well if someone just waltzes off with whatever you're marketing, or just shoots you and dumps your remains behind a grocery store dumpster.

"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."
- George Orwell
(Shall the "rough men" be hired only by those who can afford their services, or hired for all by general taxation?)

[Logophile]

Great article, ST. I always wonder why people can't understand concept of spontaneous ordering when we see it every day in aa free market, or why 90 percent of our ills happen because of, in tribute to, or on the tragic commons.

My guess is that most people do understand "spontaneous ordering," but they fear the kind of order that is likely to result.