(December 14, 2022 at 5:54 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(December 14, 2022 at 5:30 am)FlatAssembler Wrote: I thought that, by "forming a state in a libertarian society", you mean the following happens:
1) Crime raises to the level that cannot be controlled simply by everybody being armed. (I see no reason to think that will happen, but let's say so.)
2) Some entrepreneurs start "security companies" that are supposed to help against crime. And people buy into their propaganda. (OK, I guess it's possible. After all, people are buying into egg industry propaganda that they aren't causing superbacteria, which is even more ridiculous than saying that a company can help us against crime.)
3) Those companies start making contracts with each other, effectively forming a monopoly (Really? And not a single company will proclaim itself to protect from other security companies? Like NSA and TOR Project work against each other?).
4) That monopoly starts doing tyrranical things. So, you call it a "state".
Simply because a State exists doesn’t make it tyrannical [note correct spelling]. But I’m glad you agree with me that anarcho-capitalism simply replaces a public State with a private one.
Boru
Like I've said, each of those steps of how a private state would form seems problematic. Why would crime rise to the point that everybody being armed does not control it? Would people really think security companies are the answer? Would security companies really form a monopoly (rather than working against each other, like NSA and TOR Project)?
