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Originally Posted by Alrex
If somehow the government crashes and there is no more, I am purchasing a gun, filling up my bathtub and sinks with water, stocking up on dry foods, barricading my house and if anyone comes within 10 feet of my barbed wire fences I will shoot to kill.
There would be complete choas. Imagine a protest turning into a riot. Lets take the G20 for example and amplify it by 6 billion people imagining there is no government left on earth.
People follow other people. Lets say all the sudden you are in the middle of a busy street and all the sudden yell RUN and start running. Peoples natural reaction will to start running.
Humans are constantly pinging each other on how to act or what to do.
Without a government to give them laws or structure, people will either turn fully to religion or riot. And I believe the people turning to religion will die first because I don't think God or Budha will stop bullets for them.
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I dunno about you, but the reason I'm not out on a killing/raping spree right now isn't just because the government is telling me not to.
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>Implying only a government can protect person and property
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Originally Posted by Kitty.
How would we work out currency?
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The market would likely settle on some sort of uniform currency. From looking back on history and from looking at what makes the most sense from an economic perspective, this would probably be some form of commodity based currency. And it'd work out a hell of a lot better without the government to inflate the currency, making it worthless and causing the business cycle in the process.
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Originally Posted by Brandon
That is, of course, if we had the technology to build the products without a government in the first place.
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What?
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Originally Posted by Brandon
Some of the founding fathers who owned slaves wouldn't mind if owning slaves became illegal. But let's not just point the finger at the government because you're neglecting the fact that a lot of people, especially in the south, owned slaves. One of the main reasons for the Civil War was to stop the expansion of slavery in the South. And they weren't told by the government to have slaves, they did it on their own free will. So I completely disagree with this.
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And the government also in effect subsidised slavery by monopolising the provision of "justice" and forcefully returning slaves to their "owners". I also recall reading recently about a case back during segregation when a train company was fined by the government for not putting blacks in a seperate carraige. There's the free market being racist alright
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Originally Posted by Toast
Only if human mentality changes.
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How so? Surely if humans are so imperfect that they will do evil things under anarchy, we wouldn't dare take a group of these people and give them the violent, monopolistic powers of a government.