Re:Hawaii governor vows to block land grabs as fire-ravaged ...
by dragonwriter on Thursday August 17, 2023 @04:39PM
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> Lol - if you study libertarianism deeply, you'll find out most of these edge cases you think a centralized government is needed can be provided by a free market. In the Private Production of Defense, Hoppe argues that property owners and businesses can buy covergae from insurance agencies who will then have a vested interest in keeping their houses and communities crime-free.
If, instead of studying libertarian theory, you study history deeply, you’ll find that there is no magical distinction between private actors and government, and that when you rely on non-governmental actors to provide things like defense without a more powerful government to constrain them, that positions allows them to become a government.
> And if the court as much as makes one unfair ruling, it will drive away new business from parties who want a neutral third party.
No one wants a neutral third party, everyone wants someone that is biased towards them but which the opposing party can be conned into believing is not.
Neutral is just what you would get, were such a market viable, when both sides happen to have equal success. (Which outside of naive assumptions about perfect information, is unlikely to be normal in practice.)
If, instead of studying libertarian theory, you study history deeply, you’ll find that there is no magical distinction between private actors and government, and that when you rely on non-governmental actors to provide things like defense without a more powerful government to constrain them, that positions allows them to become a government.
> And if the court as much as makes one unfair ruling, it will drive away new business from parties who want a neutral third party.
No one wants a neutral third party, everyone wants someone that is biased towards them but which the opposing party can be conned into believing is not.
Neutral is just what you would get, were such a market viable, when both sides happen to have equal success. (Which outside of naive assumptions about perfect information, is unlikely to be normal in practice.)