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

[log]

And people who *claim* to believe in a sky fairy may not, in fact, believe at all.  There are social-hierarchical benefits to pretending to believe what one doesn't believe.

The True Christian™ gambit.  Meh, seen it.

Well, do you deny that people claim sides or join social organizations - neighborhoods, cities, states, countries, PTAs, churches, and the like - for the social benefits like enhanced security, property accumulation, moral superiority, sexual access, and so on?

Of course not.  How can you tell if one is a TrueBeliever™?  Maybe they only like the Raiders because... well, I don't know, are the Raiders even still a thing?  But the point is, people do things for reasons sometimes different than stated, and that difference is detected when they behave in ways precluded by their stated beliefs.

---

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.

Yes, they do tend to frown on that.