[ExI] Jimmy 'the Greek' Snyder

[Dan TheBookMan]

You must have missed the three examples I gave in my first two sentences:

1. “personal self-defense“

2. “voluntary defense associations for those extremely rare occasions when violent confrontations happen”

3. “Private security” 

I brought up the Benson book and the Smith essay as examples of a vast literature by libertarians on how to deal with this issue. Not only is the literature vast, but it goes back decades. The idea of dismantling the police and government in general are not really all that new in libertarian circles. Again, they’ve been discussed and written about before I was born.

Regards,

Dan
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> On Jun 9, 2020, at 2:21 PM, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> 
> I am simply not interested enough in it to read a book.  But just a hint or two about how to deal with crime without police would be a help.  bill w
> 
>> On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 3:37 PM Dan TheBookMan via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>> I don't have all the answers here, but personal self-defense and voluntary defense associations for those extremely rare occasions when violent confrontations happen. Private security already plays a role in current US-American society, such as security guards inside shopping malls and the like. So I don't see any reason why people can't specialize in security and things like detection and apprehension of suspects. What wouldn't exist under such a system is a group of people who have special privileges because of this specialization. (And self-help wouldn't be outlawed.)
>> 
>> Elsewhere I mentioned Bruce L. Benson's 1990 book _The Enterprise of Law: Justice Without the State_. He goes over much of this in far more depth than me. Also, market anarchists have been discussing how to deal with crime without the state for decades now. This is all part of the literature of libertarian thought, no? (What shocks me is meeting people who call themselves libertarians who seem unaware of this work. Have you heard of Benson's work? That's not his only book. How about George H. Smith? Have you read his essay "Justice Entrepreneurship In a Free Market"? He wrote on this subject back in 1979!)
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Dan
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