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by nickik on Sunday October 14, 2018 @08:39PM
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I didn't really want to into argument about libertarian anarchism but I just didn't see your point directly relating to the rest of your post.
But your argument, inherent bias toward centralisation is the old and traditional argument that statist libertarian also use. Nozick is most well known for that argument.
I don't want to really argue for it to much, just want to make clear that, its not about 'wishing' anything away. Violence is reduced if some level of balance of power exists and conflict resumption is available and the believe is that this could exist without government.
As this is Hacker News its not the place for this argument, I would just recommend 'Anarchy and the Law: The Political Economy of Choice' as a great book on this. It includes chapters by different people arguing the two positions, and some other nice content about the subject.
Anarchist libertarianism solves the moral quandry of statist libertarianism, which is imposing a state on people but restricting the ability of people to use their vote to create a big government. I just don’t think it’s possible and would inevitably degenerate into feudalism. Central to anarchist libertarianism is the idea that coercion through violence is wrongful. True or not, violence is one of the most basic interactions that exists between oeganisms. You can’t wish it away, just control it by e.g. consolidating it into a State that has greater power to exercise violence than any group of individuals.