RE: Government is Irrational.
July 2, 2013 at 12:06 pm
(This post was last modified: July 2, 2013 at 12:07 pm by Tonus.)
(July 1, 2013 at 6:04 pm)Koolay Wrote: You are degrading humans to machines, we are not machines and we have free will and we can stop the initiation of violence at any time.
On our own behalf, yes. A community of people who rely on pacifism is at the mercy of those who decide not to. Why would an aggressor worry about "the market" when he can simply force the non-violent to provide goods for him under the threat of abuse or death? I expect that a society that does away with an organized government will break down into smaller and smaller units that survive, not by turning to for-profit court systems, but by violently suppressing their neighbors.
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