Quote from: Hideyoshi on December 14, 2013, 11:54:11 PM

Quote from: Hawker on December 14, 2013, 08:30:27 PM

Quote from: Hideyoshi on December 14, 2013, 08:21:18 PM

Walter, I must keep my eye on you. You may be of help, later.

My belief is that we must make anarchy, by making government services not as convenient as private services. In same way that file sharing made music and movie services more convenient than government-sanctioned legal services, despite file sharing being illegal. We need tools to replace government, and must make them work in a way that makes them impossible to destroy by governments (make them decentralized like bitcoin), and make it easy for people to use anonymously. In short, the only way to compete with government monopoly and make it go away is to create powerful tools that make the gray market much easier for businesses and people to work in.

Have you a concrete idea how what private services you would use to prevent animal cruelty?

Professionals with black clothing and silenced weapons, I hope...

There are private charities that check on animals and secretly confiscate ones that they see are abused, providing them with sanctuary, rehabilitation, and new homes. They publicly document their animal's abused state online to show everyone that animals they take were abused, and they had right to save them. When old owners try to sue them, they show pictures to public and to court to prove they are right to save these animals, and win cases every time. I know of one that does this for livestock, and one that does this with ferrets. This could be done with private courts, too. This needs no law, this only needs people's popular opinion. Opinions change, and ethics evolve. I hope they will continue to evolve for better.

Quote from: Hawker on December 14, 2013, 08:41:33 PM

We had a man beaten to death for paedophilia here in the UK recently who it turned out was just unpopular with his neighbours.

We have people all over the world jailed for paedophilia, who are just some people the neighbors or police did not like. So what is different?

So your ideal society is one in which people get killed by "Professionals with black clothing and silenced weapons" hired by anyone who thinks they are cruel to animals.

And you think killing someone is no different from a jail sentence.

A lot of anarchists come across as morally confused. They talk about freedom but want to impose their own views on other people in a totally undemocratic way. Your idea of being able to have people killed without trial if they are suspected of being cruel to animals is an extremely good example of this moral confusion.