(July 30, 2016 at 3:25 am)paulpablo Wrote: I think his response regarding Somalia was that it isn't a place that adopted anarchy as a philosophical solution, it adopted it because the government collapsed and the country was already full of crime and so on.
Special pleading is special. The definition of anarcho-capitalism given upthread says nothing about the requirement that society adopt it as a guiding philosophy. Unspoken in such an objection is that everyone must agree that in anarchy they must respect each others' rights, and that unspoken premise is exactly the weakness of anarchy -- because there will always be people who don't respect the rights of others, and how do you deal with them? Anarchy, as a political solution, ignores the fact that a certain portion of people are going to act contrary to the best interests of the group.
I don't think Somalia "adopted" anarchy, I think Somalia fell into anarchy after its government was destroyed by the civil war. But I doubt the result would be any different, because, well, people.
