ITT we discuss the anarcho capitalist penal system. A system where we eliminate the state and let the free market and natural laws take place. In this libertopia courts, law enforcement, police are all privatized rather funded through the coercive mechanism of taxation. Does any one think that this is fd?
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Is there some sort of benchmark for 'security' firms, similar in ways to the law (as we know it today)? From what I can gather there isn't, so there would be ambiguity in what is considered 'right'. So, there is the potential for one of these 'police forces' to arrest anyone under their corporation's orders or just for the sake of arresting people.
If there was a benchmark, then how can this be enforced? No corporation can police another as they haven't paid for it. I support the free market, but I don't think police should be something controlled by multiple corporations.
Are you guys retarded?
1) You opt-in to some kind of security fund (much like insurance etc.) and are thus eligible for police protection and assistance. You have the choice and the right not to opt in (the opposite of the current state of public policing).
2) A corporation benefits from policing in that its shit doesn't get fucked you dolt.
Edit: It's important to note that with point 1), much like insurance, you can be denied police protection or assistance if you have breached the terms of your contract with the private police force. Similar to any other kind of insurance.
tl;dr a huge world of insurance and fuck
You say that a person can opt into security, and they are protected by that corporation. I can see some potential for extortion - 'pay us and we'll make sure you don't get hurt', 'we don't want to', *brick thru window*. I'm not saying this would always be the case, but who's stopping them from doing this? There may be no defined obligation to opt into this security, but then again there is no guaranteeing this right.
Eventually a corporation will get to the point where their 'security services' are superior, and they can remove any opposition and form a governing body. Then we revert back to a state of some description, instead there's a better chance that it's based on the corporate structure with the CEO or whoever is at the top now in the seat of a dictator.
If there was some sort of uniform system safeguarding the very basic civil liberties, then I would have no probs. However through my interpretation of the OP's concept, this contradicts the idea presented.