(July 8, 2013 at 8:39 pm)Koolay Wrote: Well, eBay is an example of a society functioning without Government, everything is handled by private entities; eBay and PayPal. Billions upon billions of transactions happen from strangers across the world and the Government does not lay a finger on any of those transactions as disputes are 100% handled by ebay/paypal.
How do you not see that this example is completely antithetical to your anarchist perspective.
First of all, being a completely virtual domain, there is no possibility of "initiation of force" in there.
Secondly, eBay is not an independent, anarchist community, but is subject to laws of the land. If a fraud is perpetrated via eBay, or someone sells stolen items on it, or of drugs are sold online - then off to court all concerned parties go. Government rules and laws are applicable on eBay as well.
Even apart from government laws, eBay still has to work according to specific policies and directives as issued by the board members, CEO's etc. The term for that is corporate governance. Get it? The word government is built right into it. eBay/Paypal serve the role of government here.
It is not a society functioning without government. The rules of its operations are determined by the government. The policies are determined by its corporate government. All aspects of government are present and correct in this community.
