Comments on: The Prankster http://anarchyinyourhead.com/2009/02/11/the-prankster/ The Revolution Will Be Doodled! Mon, 05 Dec 2011 14:43:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Tel http://anarchyinyourhead.com/2009/02/11/the-prankster/comment-page-1/#comment-4241 Tel Sat, 02 May 2009 08:00:32 +0000 http://anarchyinyourhead.com/?p=281#comment-4241 You guys completely miss the point. The primary purpose of government is to protect you from other governments, and to maintain it's own power. A central command structure has been proven to be very effective for military purposes. Unless you can come up with an equally effective defense force that does not require a central command structure, then you can fully expect to lose the next war. After that you will be subjects of someone else's empire and your plans for the future will be irrelevant. And yes I agree that minarchists tend to get stumped searching for an effective mechanism to prevent continual government expansion, but when you look at the level of government expansion that has already happened it is self-evident that no one at all has any idea how to stop it, nor are the anarchists actually managing to achieve any genuine movement toward smaller government in any realistic sense (unless you believe that all government will suddenly vanish from the world in a simultaneous flash of fantasy, in which case, God help you, and the Spaghetti Man too, you will need all those guys helping and more). If anything I would argue that the corrupt criminals who white-ant government from within (causing the structure to fall down as quickly as it builds up) are probably the only practical constraint on complete totalitarianism. In other words, government automatically grows to the largest size that it can grow whilst still remaining reasonably stable, and that's the size it remains regardless of anyone's efforts. You guys completely miss the point. The primary purpose of government is to protect you from other governments, and to maintain it’s own power. A central command structure has been proven to be very effective for military purposes. Unless you can come up with an equally effective defense force that does not require a central command structure, then you can fully expect to lose the next war. After that you will be subjects of someone else’s empire and your plans for the future will be irrelevant.

And yes I agree that minarchists tend to get stumped searching for an effective mechanism to prevent continual government expansion, but when you look at the level of government expansion that has already happened it is self-evident that no one at all has any idea how to stop it, nor are the anarchists actually managing to achieve any genuine movement toward smaller government in any realistic sense (unless you believe that all government will suddenly vanish from the world in a simultaneous flash of fantasy, in which case, God help you, and the Spaghetti Man too, you will need all those guys helping and more).

If anything I would argue that the corrupt criminals who white-ant government from within (causing the structure to fall down as quickly as it builds up) are probably the only practical constraint on complete totalitarianism. In other words, government automatically grows to the largest size that it can grow whilst still remaining reasonably stable, and that’s the size it remains regardless of anyone’s efforts.

]]> By: Alex Libman http://anarchyinyourhead.com/2009/02/11/the-prankster/comment-page-1/#comment-4143 Alex Libman Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:47:01 +0000 http://anarchyinyourhead.com/?p=281#comment-4143 I'm both a Minarchist and an Anarcho-Capitalist, and I don't see any contradiction in my views. Some FTL forum posts summarizing my position: http://bbs.freetalklive.com/index.php?topic=26779.msg531433#msg531433 http://bbs.freetalklive.com/index.php?topic=28726.msg534282#msg534282 I’m both a Minarchist and an Anarcho-Capitalist, and I don’t see any contradiction in my views. Some FTL forum posts summarizing my position:

http://bbs.freetalklive.com/index.php?topic=26779.msg531433#msg531433

http://bbs.freetalklive.com/index.php?topic=28726.msg534282#msg534282

]]> By: Giggan http://anarchyinyourhead.com/2009/02/11/the-prankster/comment-page-1/#comment-3828 Giggan Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:45:16 +0000 http://anarchyinyourhead.com/?p=281#comment-3828 Oh yeah, anyone who frames their sentences with "we need" is unreachable. Or at least they take 10x longer. Oh yeah, anyone who frames their sentences with “we need” is unreachable. Or at least they take 10x longer.

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