Re: Mandatory front page AC thread: Security in AC land
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Statist- Yeah, and then the biggest and most powerful security company will just blow up all it's competitors and then game over man, back comes the state, and it'll probably be a tyrannical dictatorship.
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File this under "obviously."
This argument that war is not profitable is insufficient. Sure it's not profitible for "the people" but neither is ANYTHING else the government does. The important thing is that the ruling class gets their loot, and they certainly are, aren't they? More and more every year.
Basically the problem is, you claim that the state would not emerge out of whatever starting conditions you claim, and yet in history the state has emerged. What is so different about now that this would not happen today? I would claim that if you somehow eliminated the state, it would re-emerge much, much faster than before, simply because that is what most people think is good and right (whereas before the state existed it is harder for people to accept being taxed and jailed, etc.)
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