Re: dbts: Privacy Fetishes, Perfect Competition, and the (fwd)

Jim Choate wrote:

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From: "Frank O'Dwyer" Under an "anarcho-whatever" people are left to their own devices.

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The implication is that individuals are making societal policies with no checks and balances (failure 1).

You are missing the point completely -- there is no reason to suppose that people, left to their own devices, would do anything other than what people left to their own devices have already done, which is to put in place all the present systems of law and government. The problem for both your point of view and that of the "anarcho-whatevers" is that there is no need to speculate about what an anarchy would look like, we already have one. It's just that it doesn't resemble what either of you thinks an anarchy should be. [...] Cheers, Frank O'Dwyer.