<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">This is defining government too loosely. I'm fairly sure, too, Dave meant something where people explicitly consent and aren't forced to participate -- not something like a modern city where simply by living there some folks down in city hall tell you what to do and how much you owe them for the favor under threat of sending an armed gang to lock you in a cage or gun you down. dan</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Does a man rule his family? What if some yahoo doesn't want to pay for anything, and so he is cut off from all services. Does that mean that anyone can attack his family? Burn down his house? Kidnap his kids? What if he is a wife beater? Are we going to stand for that? What if he is insane? I think that there is a time to tell people what to do and if they don't, fine them, take away their family, or put them in jail or an asylum.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Then there is the moral aspect: should a person be allowed to enjoy services without paying? Like a man who won't pay taxes but lives on a road upkept with taxes? I just don't see anything by anybody in this discussion that leaves me to believe that any kind of anarchy, short of living by yourself in a cave, is even possible. If I or we are using an incorrect definition of anarchy, them let's have one that fits some rational way of living.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">bill w</span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 3:48 PM, Dan TheBookMan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:danust2012@gmail.com" target="_blank">danust2012@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><span class=""><div>On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 12:38 PM, William Flynn Wallace <<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com" target="_blank">foozler83@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> A group of people can form a community and agree to the rules of being a member<br>> of the community, including funding a police force.<br>><br>> -Dave<br>><br>> And then you have a government. Any time you get people to contribute to something,<br>> like the up keep of the road they live on, you have in effect taxes and people to collect<br>> them and distribute them. Then there is community water, fire protection and so on. <br>> What could be debated is how big an area needs a government to supply these services<br>> - town, county, state etc.<br><br></div></span>This is defining government too loosely. I'm fairly sure, too, Dave meant something where people explicitly consent and aren't forced to participate -- not something like a modern city where simply by living there some folks down in city hall tell you what to do and how much you owe them for the favor under threat of sending an armed gang to lock you in a cage or gun you down.<br><br></div>Let me put this another way: What does anarchy mean to you? Just pure social chaos? No one cooperating on anything? If so, that's not what I mean by the term and not what any reasonable anarchist I know means by it. It's not even the original meaning, which is just "no rulers." That's why I presented those two positions -- no one has a right to rule anyone else and no one has a duty to obey anyone else. (I got those from Michael Huemer too. So, I'm not making any claims to being original or innovative.)<br><div><span class=""><div><br>> Thus: there will be governments. Period. And rules for crimes, not paying taxes and<br>> the like. (I saw one community fire crew let a house burn down because the owner<br>> owed $75 to the fire dept.) People are government, so gov will do stupid things<br>> because there are stupid people - no shortage of them. Don't we see them getting<br>> elected all the time? <br><br></div></span><div>My guess is the kind of community Dave was talking about -- and he can correct me where I'm wrong -- is one where no joining wouldn't be a crime. Also, the likely outcome of not paying the dues would be simply that you don't get the services. For instance, you decide not to pay for the security service, then they _might not_ help if your home is burglarized.<br><br>I hope you don't take offense, but since you're a libertarian and read a lot (more than me, I think:), I'm sure you've read many of the arguments for market anarchism. All the stuff you're bringing up here are all introductory level arguments. (Ditto for Adrian who's discussed this before with me. It seems more like a merry-go-round on this: the same counterarguments I've read on and off for years now are presented again and again. And it's not like I've done nothing to respond to them. Add to this, my responses are ones that are already attested in the anarchist literature, sometimes for decades now or even longer.)<br></div><span class=""><div><br>Regards,<br><br>Dan<br> My latest Kindle book, "The Late Mr. Gurlitt," is free today PDT from:<br><a href="http://mybook.to/Gurlitt" target="_blank">http://mybook.to/Gurlitt</a></div></span></div></div>
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