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Originally Posted by Frosty
Hang on wait what? You support a free market in food production so fervently and you don't even know what everybody would eat for breakfast every day? Doesn't that strike you as absurd? Food is one of the fundamental underpinnings of a free society, and unless you can very specifically elaborate on an alternate system that still accounts for human greed, selfishness and shortsightedness while retaining the food we have today you don't have any argument at all.
Seriously, you're totally missing the point of a free market here.
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Okay, now I'm sure you're just trolling. It seems you either you think you can reasonably advocate doing something without having any idea of whether it's feasible, or you think property rights are a trivial detail. So what exactly is the point of anarchy? Because from here it sounds more and more like you really just don't like the thought of paying taxes rather than actually having a concrete idea of how to improve society.
Another question, by the way. Perhaps this one you'll have an answer for: without antitrust laws, what in an anarchist society prevents the formation of guilds and cartels? It seems that the concept of market pressure inciting competition only works as long as no one decides they'd be better off working together.
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Originally Posted by Frosty
People who explicitly advocate the abolition of government are a minority, but abolish all government force and see how many people follow government regulations and pay taxes, then come back to me and tell me that government currently works through mutual consent.
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How many months of thievery, vandalism and violence are we going to wait before we ask people whether or not they'd like their government back?
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