Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC840302); site boring.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!mcvax!boring!jack From: jack@boring.UUCP Newsgroups: net.politics.theory Subject: Re: What is a libertarian go[u]verment? Message-ID: <6306@boring.UUCP> Date: Sat, 2-Feb-85 15:01:18 EST Article-I.D.: boring.6306 Posted: Sat Feb 2 15:01:18 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Feb-85 06:02:11 EST References: <421@klipper.UUCP> <627@unmvax.UUCP> Reply-To: jack@boring.UUCP (Jack Jansen) Organization: CWI, Amsterdam Lines: 31 Summary: Apparently-To: rnews@mcvax.LOCAL In article <627@unmvax.UUCP> cliff@unmvax.UUCP writes: >With a sufficiently small >kernel as the actual government itself, it would be possible to finance the >entire government proper through private donations and user fees Which would make it *highly* vulnerable, and depending on it's financers. Do you think that such a government would do *anything* about the noise that is bothering Biep's scientist if it was caused by one of it's biggest sponsors? >convicted criminal can either cough up sufficient money to pay for his trial >incarceration, etc. or face deportation) First law of Libertaria: It is illegal to murder, rape, steal or cheat, unless you have enough money to bribe the government. In my opinion, all articles defending libertarianism fail in one point: IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO DEFEND THE EXISTENCE OF MONEY IN AN EGALITARIAN SOCIETY. In an Anarchist society, both of the problems above would not exist. If there is anything that resembles a government, it has *no* authority whatsoever, and can only *advise* people what to do. There are no criminals in the legal sense of the word (people who are *convicted* of a crime). Of course, there will be people who act unsocially, but they will be simply cast out of their community, or perhaps even locked up or killed, but this is completely up to the community in which the "criminal" lives. -- Jack Jansen, {decvax|philabs|seismo}!mcvax!jack Notice new, improved, faster address ^^^^^