1. “PEOPLE ARE BAD”
I trust myself and my friends, but we’re good people! Those OTHER people are not!
While it is definitely true that there are “bad” people in the world who violate others and their property, saying that a select few people calle…
1. “PEOPLE ARE BAD”
I trust myself and my friends, but we’re good people! Those OTHER people are not!
While it is definitely true that there are “bad” people in the world who violate others and their property, saying that a select few people called politicians should have power over billions of others makes zero sense. If indeed “people are bad” (they’re not, for the most part, by the way) then what sense does it make to give bad people EVEN MORE POWER by opening seats of power in a violence-based thing called government/the state? If people are inherently bad, then government by the initiation of force is a bad idea.
To say that the violent power afforded by the state won’t corrupt one’s “special guy” politician, is nothing more than special pleading.
2. PEOPLE WON’T HELP EACH OTHER WITHOUT A STATE.
I am not sure why the butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker would mysteriously stop providing their services for a living in the absence of the state, but it seems many think that this would indeed be the case.
I am not sure why doctors and medical specialists would no longer be incentivized to provide care. I am not sure why their passion for healing and need for a living wage would magically dissipate along with the dissipation of a violent nation state. This really doesn’t make any sense.
Markets, order, rules, charity, arbitration, security, and police can all exist in the context of voluntaryist, propertarian anarchy.
The real self-detonator of this criticism, however, is found in asking the criticizer, “What? You would not help your neighbor if he needed help? Why not?” If the state was gone, and that rendered everyone immediately thieves, rapists, lazy, uninterested and shiftless bums, perhaps we don’t deserve to be alive in the first place. And anyway, if the only reason folks are working and helping one another is because the state is threatening them, and they are secretly evil and waiting for a chance to exercise this evil in the absence of ..
