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Board Politics & Society
Re: How long would it take for Anarchy to start working?
by
deisik
on 09/12/2013, 18:55:24 UTC
I talk about what already works now if you are not happy with the state you happen to live in. You, instead, are trying to sell a pig in a poke, something which is simply not here today and probably will never be.

The point is that you and I should not support the use of force to compel people to have just one government in an area.  It's as immoral for governments to claim a monopoly in an area over defense and law and order as it is for the mafia to have territory and force everyone within it to pay protection money.

I didn't get the emboldened part. Please explain

Also, I don't think we can apply ethical categories (such as being moral or immoral) to governments or states. It is proper as well as better, in my opinion, to rather judge them on the effectiveness and expedience scales. Mafia which has territory and can force everyone within it to pay protection money is called, yes, state...