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We shouldn't. However that's missing the point of whether or not isolated gun-bans are workable, whether the police enforce them or not. An argument based on assumption: a) that customers have any interest in the punishment of others who have broken the rules (or law) and b) that the...

Yes the police have failed to protect them, but how do we know that they are not the exception? Hard statistics are necessary to make any definitive judgements here imo. Disregarding the ambiguity of 'protection', in how many cases did the police successfully 'protect' the victim? If the ratio...

So let me sort this out as well..... Would the judiciary remain or would there be some other source of law to determine the concept of a 'crime'? Or would such a concept be rendered invalid?

Possibly. Tbh this is pure speculation but I get the feeling that the police are successful in preventing the perversion of justice more often than not. Just imagine the clutter if the press actually ran stories such as 'Police Thwart Minor Disturbance of Peace' Perhaps there is some study...

Can't say that I couldn't see it coming.....

Many of those issues I too find deeply disconcerting. But the question I really mean to ask is, why is anarcho-capitalism likely to fix those sorts of problems, and how?

Sarcastic but not always true *anecdote alert*. The one day some months go now my friend hapened to witness a rape as he was driving home; apparently he called the police and they arrived within less than a minute in full force. Justice appropriately served in this particular instance with no...

Having noticed the increasing preponderance of anarcho-capitalist ideas (or even anarchist/minarchist in general) in this forum as of late, I figured that it might be an idea to create a separate thread to deal with this topic more fully. So far a-c has come up in a few other threads but never...

If a kitchen knife, a pair of scissors or an iron stick are all far more lethal than a police baton and thus presumably better for self-defence, why do you care if a police baton is illegal or not? Unless I'm somehow missing the point; would you prefer to club someone unconscious in...

It's changed! New citizenship test 'more relevant than the last' - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) Thoughts?

I have to say I do kind of agree with you, not because of the science it uses, but mainly because the survey itself doesn't really ask anything that's directly relevant to youth attitudes on climate change. I mean, they could've had proper questions on the subject, but instead chose to go with...

Sigh. Read the rest of that paragraph. As I said, only the state is going to be able to reduce the power of the state. This is an example of that happening. The fact is that either a state will dismantle itself or it will be overthrown, most likely in a violent fashion. Do you advocate the...

Well-considered I guess. Really, I suppose its either a 'glass half-full'/'glass half-empty' approach. However, perhaps you overstate the power of technology. Even if a worst-case scenario happened, think of the logistics of potentially relocating billions of people. We have enough trouble...

That is moronic. Ice caps will melt into oceans of salt water: very little (if any) fresh water will be added. Furthermore, this threat totally misses the point. The critical issue is not what the temperature is now, or what it will be, but how fast it is moving. Rapid change is the real...

Check out 'Monster' by Robin Morgan. It's pretty tough to find, but there are some versions with the poems 'Arraignment I and II', which both accuse Hughes of murdering Plath. Harsh stuff.

True. But it's sad to see the 'stale faces', so to speak, trotting out the same old bigotry. I think it's safe to say this thread is collectively sick and tired of your ranting. Don't you have some uni course to fail?

Huzzah says I.

You are both divisive and stupid. It's not a question of 'liking' them, its a question of respect, tolerance and human compassion. Though that is clearly too much for the few ganglia occupying the otherwise-empty space in your head to fathom.

Is this meant to be satirical?

Unimportant, really. It makes little difference where the funds come from. Yes, it is true that the government delegated responsibility to these private contractors (and paid for their operations) but that is exactly the sort of action that you appear to advocate. You want power taken out of the...