At 08:36 AM 11/13/98 -0600, Jim Choate wrote:
So what we are left with is a system whereby people mediate their actions based on the compatibility of their personal philosophies.
Standard interoperation of different protocols. We do it all the time.
As I've said before, anarcho- based systems make the same phsychological mistake that every system other than a democracy makes; if it works for one person the answer should be acceptable to another. The very fact that the contrary to this is one of the reasons behind anarcho- support doesn't seem to impinge upon the concioussness. Anarchy is contradictory at the axiomatic level.
Another way to see it is: Let people do what they want and they'll naturaly conform to what I want.
Who cares what they do as long as they leave me alone.
There is this same axiomatic problem with Hayek's economics and social theories.
He was not an anarchist. If voluntary interaction doesn't work as a social system then we're all in big trouble because persons (you?) who love to command others will have a hard time doing so as everyone becomes rich, mobile, and technologically powerful. If you have figured out a way to push around rich, mobile, and technologically powerful people you're a smarter man than I am. I'm sure the Feds could use your unique insights. BTW we live in a representative republic not a democracy and the theory was that it was to be a representative republic of strictly limited powers. Our representatives have forgotten. Technology and market institutions are teaching them different. DCF