On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 00:31:29 GMT, Strabo 
wrote:

snipped

>What state? No borders, no state. No state, no law.
>No law, no order. No order, no agreements. No agreements,
>no trade. Just a vast, sprawling mass of writhing humanity
>digging in the dirt for grubs and fending off cannibals.

You've not thought this out.

>That'll last until the strongest enslave the weak
>and the game begins anew.

So you admit the State is simply enslavement?

Don't you understand what "Functions of the State"  means?

>Strong fences make for good neighbors.

Strong fences make for slave pens.


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"The central idea of libertarianism is that people should
 be permitted to run their own lives as they wish. We totally
 reject the idea that people must be forcibly protected
 from themselves...We also reject the idea that people have
 an enforceable claim on others, for anything more than
 being left alone."

                        "Introduction"
                         _The Machinery of Freedom_
                         2nd edition 1989
                         David Friedman
           http://www.daviddfriedman.com/index.shtml


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