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If there's any kind of government involved it would be minarchism, not AC.

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How are you defining government? If you define it as a system of law, order, and defense, then government does exist in AC-land, right? It just doesn't have any connection to state power. It seems like stressing the governmental role which a free market can provide could be a good way to defuse many of the fears that are generally associated with anarchy. It also sounds less radical and stresses the critical difference between government (law, order, defense) and state (tyranny) which many many people never realize.

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Government = taxing coercive territorial monopolist. There isn't a "critical difference between government (law, order, defense) and state (tyranny)". Government = state = taxing coercive territorial monopolist, regardless of whether it uses those funds to invade countries, pay judges, or subsidize farmers.
I don't know how many defense and law AC threads you've gone through, but we have these debates constantly. Some of the statist newcomers reply like you are describing, with "ZOMG PEOPLE WILL RUN AROUND KILLING EACH OTHER." But there are actual discussions about the viability and efficacy of free market solutions to certain essential services that the government monopolizes.