[ExI] Libertarianism wins again...

[Stefano Vaj]

2011/7/20 Dan <dan_ust at yahoo.com>

> Your view of deregulation overlooks two significant facts. One,
> corporations are creatures of the state. Therefore, absent the state, they
> would all likely cease to exist.
>

Mmhhh, interesting issue. In fact, companies are the product of a legal
system, but legal systems may well exist even without a "State" in the
modern, western sense. Same as contracts (in fact, companies *are*
contracts).


> And the biggest criminal of all, in any region, tends to be the state.
>

This sounds well rhetorically, but it is actually an oxymoron, because
whenever a State exists, "crime" is defined as the breach of (a law which is
part of a subset of) its rules.

Then, individual officers can breach them, but if the "State" does, it has
simply changed the rules actually in force or introduced a new exception
thereto.

-- 
Stefano Vaj
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