CDR: Re: Insurance (was: why should it be trusted?)

[Sampo A Syreeni]

On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Anonymous wrote:

>Crypto-anarchy is in fact not really anarchy, since it only addresses 
>some kinds of authority, ie government, and only in certain situations. 
>True anarchy involves the dissolution of other hierarchical relationships,
>including those that spring from private property. Get rid of private 
>property and many of these problems disappear.

Details, details. People use the term 'anarchy' a bit too casually here,
nothing else. Mostly what they mean is 'libertarian'. The latter in no
way excludes other hierarchical relationships, as we all know hardcore
anarchy does. Tim's favorite characterization of this side of anarchy is
something like socialist simp-wimp mumbo jumbo.

Sampo Syreeni <decoy at iki.fi>, aka decoy, student/math/Helsinki university