To Catch a Predator: Creating Crime

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I don't see where in the realm of AC theory this behavior on the part of PJ would be discouraged.

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Well, it wouldn't be discouraged by the state, obviously.

But if the state is dissolved and anarchocapitalism becomes vogue, the population would by necessity be composed largely of people who actually think about things rather than let primal emotion rule their actions. So yeah, you might have a few guys looking for troublemakers but you'd be unlikely to see lynchmobs. If you have lynchmobs, you basically are going to have people who want government so they can use it as a stick to boss other people around.

Many statists who seek to discredit AC try to paint it as impractical by using hypotheticals like this. Remove government, leave all other variables fixed. Of course it fails given these conditions.

If you went back 300 years, grabbed Isaac Newton off the street, returned to the present and just shoved him in the cockpit of a 747 in the middle of its landing approach at LAX, he'd probably crash the plane. That doesn't mean he would be incapable of learning to fly the thing.