Why Anarcho-Capitalism Is a Canard and Its Implications for Atheism

[Aegon]

Where is it that you live, and who the hell do you live with...that the only means of maintaining societal order is to threaten people?  Most of us don;t need the slightest compulsion...we don;t even give it thought.  We wake up, we have our coffeee, we go to work, we pay our bills.  Not once in the course of a day do I think to myself

 "Did I forget to steal my neighbors cattle and burn his house to the ground?  No, no..I didn't forget, it's just that if I did that -someone would kill me-!"

You've grown up and been acculturated to the omnipresent system of threats.  It's like the Matrix.

You call them "laws."  I bet you don't go 90 down past the local elementary school during school hours - at least in part because of the threat.  Even if you voluntarily go along with those who would otherwise compel you, you're not exactly "free" in some social sense to do otherwise, are you?  The laws or agreements and penalties attached thereto form part of your risk assessment, whether you perform the calculation explicitly as I do or not.

I.wouldn't go 90 in a school zone because I wouldn't want to kill a kid running across the street.