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Hanshan · 9w
How is a functioning free society that respects the rights of the individual (ie an anarchist one) possible, when next door to it there's a highly organized totalitarian nation with sophisticated tech...
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You just pointed a finger at the reason anarchism doesn't work. It can't work if there are bad actors, within or outside. And there are always bad actors.

You can have a rights respecting society with a government. If that government is focused on preserving rights. Or in other words is focused on preventing people, from within or form outside, from taking others rights.

So what do we have in this government?

Army
Secretary of state
Courts
Police
Treasury

Now the question is how do you finance this government without force. That is possible and I can go into it if you want.
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Hanshan · 9w
Yeah, I don't think you're going to get very far with that around these parts . People can voluntarily organize themselves locally to police against bad actors. And I don't want any government telling me what my rights are. For funding, I think this proposal made the most sense https://falkvinge...
unSATiated · 9w
If this was true we'd have no small or weak states. They are still the majorty. Anarcho-capitalism is not utopian; it doesn't make any assumption about the absence of "bad actors". Quite the contrary.