Re: Somalia
Dude. The war of all against all, where everyone engages in predation, were it to actually happen, has to be worse than any government, which at its very worst (I hope you'll agree) is of the form of war of a small ruling class against everyone else. It's the logical conclusion of Hobbes's characterization of anarchy, and all those authors basically agreed with Hobbes. A brutal regime that decimates its population would be infinitely better than half the population killing the other half, and then half of those killing the other half, and then half of those . . .
But! I concede the whole line of argument. It's totally irrelevent. The important part is that:
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. . . apparently the statists on this board . . . are now happy to concede that law, property rights, contract, and the social order and economic development that arises therefrom can all exist in the absence of governments. So there's nothing more to argue about.
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