What do you think about the police?

[Ranjr]

Like I asked my nephews, friend's kids, kid's friends, etc. when they hit that libertarian phase:  have you studied history at all?  Have you looked at the events of the past that lead to laws, regulations, and systems to enforce them?  Is the best solution to fixing a system that only works part of the time to completely do away with it?

And in answering, show your math.

Libertarians, as far as I can tell, tend to be far more knowledgeable about history than other people are. Most people are only vaguely aware of the crimes done by the Nazi regime and are not even vaguely aware of the crimes committed by the communist regimes. How many non-libertarians have heard about Lysenkoism? Yet almost every libertarian has (as a cautionary tale against "following the science"). Granted, many libertarians are ignorant about things such as Bengali famine, but so is almost everybody else.

Thanks for proving my point.