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7fqx · 3w
Is prosecuting murders, state aggression? Stopping burglaries? I don't see how enforcing borders is different. (Obviously you do have to be wary of apparatus being used against the general populat...
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Well the difference in this case is that border crossing is a victimless crime, like drug use, and those other two aren't.

So technically as an anarchist I don't think that States can ever be contained at the "night-watchman" level that traditional minarchism prescribes...

But I think there's a funny thing about victimless crime enforcement... Both in the case of the drug war and immigration you start to have to erode fundamental aspects of 2nd, 4th amendment etc protections in order to do any "practical" level of law enforcement.
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7fqx · 3w
Are you 12?
Globe99 · 3w
This happens because you're creating categories of crime that are disconnected from specific criminal acts (murder, theft etc) and rather things that are simply ongoing human conditions... I.e. possessing a plant or simply existing on the wrong side of a line in the sand
Scoundrel · 3w
Your argument is pointless. Jose Huerta Chuma was a violent criminal who Alex Pretti and everyone other "protester" there was trying to protect. If the goal was to protect people who only committed victimless crimes, then personally I think Alex Pretti should have chosen a better illegal immigrant t...
Cykros · 3w
Suggesting that trespassing, which border crossing amounts to, is a victimless crime suggests that property rights being violated have no victim. Sort of a hard position to hold unless you're a leftist anarchist. Would it be better if the property were held by individuals and private institutions r...