[ChrisV]

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No pureblood AC structure has existed ever. End of story.

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So what? You say this like it means something.

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The thing is that as far as I understand your theories, if you throw a bunch of people together, as long as there's a functioning legal tender (which there generally is, even if it's just gold or something) anarchocapitalism should be the inevitable result.

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No.

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OK, so what's the secret ingredient? How do you convert a community of people into a stable anarchocapitalist society? What are the prerequisites for such a society?

Whenever anyone mentions Somalia, or warlordism, your response is generally to ridicule them. Maybe you should explain, very slowly for those of us who aren't so smart, what the difference is between an AC society and a society of warlords (or link to somewhere where someone has already done so). In particular, I want to know what the incentive is for a privately run justice organisation (security service or court) to uphold the rule of law. What is the disincentive for breaking the law? Please don't just instruct me to read a book. Incentives only operate if they're clear enough to people that they are easily explicable. The failure of communism was (in hindsight, at least) easily predictable by the question "What incentive will people have to work efficiently/hard?", so the importance of incentives is no doubt clear to you.

Also, the answer "There is an incentive not to break the law because other, lawful justice services will punish lawbreaking" won't do because it assumes the existence of the very entities whose existence I am questioning.