Re:Wild Ideas
by Houshalter on Tuesday August 06, 2013 @02:50PM
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>This Anarcho-Capitalist ideal has never come to pass in any scenario where it could have happened: That is, there have been multiple scenarios where the established government has broken down entirely, and nobody's ever created this system with government-by-contract or anything like it.
A collapsed society isn't really a good example of anything. There are some good examples of private law systems here http://youtu.be/o0TBE-pcEi0.
>Only if everyone starts from the same premises.
Only if you are talking about subjective things like values or definitions of words or something like that.
If you are debating actual facts like "I expect X to happen tomorrow with 30% probability" or "if I do this experiment I will get this result" or even "this event happened in the past" (like debating whether someone is guilty of a crime for example.)
Given all the same information and arguments, 2 perfectly rational agents should always come to the same conclusion on these things.
A collapsed society isn't really a good example of anything. There are some good examples of private law systems here http://youtu.be/o0TBE-pcEi0.
>Only if everyone starts from the same premises.
Only if you are talking about subjective things like values or definitions of words or something like that.
If you are debating actual facts like "I expect X to happen tomorrow with 30% probability" or "if I do this experiment I will get this result" or even "this event happened in the past" (like debating whether someone is guilty of a crime for example.)
Given all the same information and arguments, 2 perfectly rational agents should always come to the same conclusion on these things.