Subnostr

Without a state, who defines "boarders?" if you don't have boarders, you have the limits of your own property. If a bigger threat emerges, voluntary militias can handle nearly everything.

Courts can be replaced with binding arbitration that is included in any contracts signed. If the other party still violates the contract, you have two options: give up or resort to violence.

My buildings will be mostly fire-resistant. I still do the wiring so it's not likely to catch on fire. If it does, let it burn and I'll rebuild.

I do not need the state to live well. I only need the state of I wish to live a much impoverished, less free life.

Dakota 2y ago

Voluntary militias will not handle nearly everything. Voluntary militias would not be able to afford the engineering and maintenance of nuclear missiles, jets, or tanks. And this will be necessary to defend yourself against the neighboring group of people that are cooperating to achieve these things. I’m sorry but it is a reality that this technology already exists and cannot be done away with, so your militia needs this technology if it is to stand a chance. Also, your voluntary militia will be less well trained than the trained soldiers of a standing military. So, sorry, you and you your non coercive neighbors just got taken over.

But let’s say that you don’t get taken over. You said courts will be replaced by binding arbitration. Who enforces this arbitration? So day 1 of ancapistan, someone breaks your contract. You challenge them to a duel and get shot and die. Well, that was a nice attempt at ancapistan. If only there was a way for a third party to rule judgement over a contract that didn’t involve violence. That’s what judges are.

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The Beave 2y ago

Yes, they will. Geez, you're pretty ignorant of how effective militias are. You don't need nukes, tanks, or jets to defend a few homesteads. Most of those are easy enough to defeat with training and some good prep. I'm more concerned about quiet hive-mind drone swarms...

Why can't you conceive of people doing things together without force being involved? How poorly have you lived for that to not ebbed be a conceptual option to you?

WTF! Why would I duel someone over a broken contract? You're wild, in a bad way, if that's the first thing you think of. You can't even see how prone to violence and coercion you are. I get it. I used to think like that, too, but thankfully, I've learned to be better than that.

Dakota 2y ago

The fact is nukes and tanks and jets are technology that already exist, today. They don’t just go *poof* and disappear once you and your neighbors decide to band together in a non coercive lifestyle. If Russia (or China, or the Middle East, etc.) exist on the other side of the planet, they will come and take you over. If you say “but why would they do this?” Then look at history. Human history is filled with countless examples of people colonizing far off places, often times not even at the behest of the state, but for their own self interest (glory, money, etc). This will not stop.

If you somehow imagine those states as also disappearing during your ancap revolution, than it will become an arms race to see who can build a state and capture the most territory and resources first. Why? Because they are incentivized to do so, and incentives matter.

The Beave 2y ago

Until all of those things are completely operated by AI, you don't directly attack those things. You attack the people in/using/directing them. You disable them. You hide from them.

No one wants a land war on US soil. It would bankrupt the countries that attempted to do it, both in people and resources. Sure, it would suck, but the world wouldn't end and life, in general, would go on, even if nukes are launched.

I don't want a revolution, I mostly just want to be left to my own devices to do what I want on my own land without paying protection money to the mob, er, government.

Dakota 2y ago

To your other point, you were the one that said you would resort to force or violence if the contract was broken. You said you either eat the loss, or resort to violence. So I was just taking your words man. I am sorry, I did not mean to assume that you would duel someone if they broke a contract. Let me ask you, if there was a contract that if it was broken would put you out of business, how would you go about resolving that without a judicial system and without violence?

The Beave 2y ago

*sighs*

No, I stated options: Giving up or using violence. I would choose to give up. I do not seek violence. I would rather be a peacemaker under most circumstances.

The Beave 2y ago

If society breaks down, there will be no "businesses." there will be people dealing with other people. There will be no corporate structure. There will be no law enforcement or judiciary to attempt to enforce things. If you can't pursuade people peacefully, your ideas are awful and you're a trash human.

Dakota 2y ago

Also did you just say that a nuclear bomb is easy to defeat with training?

The Beave 2y ago

If you can stop the launch/go codes, sure.

Nukes are a problem. You can't put the djini back in the bottle. But, you can disassemble them and trash the "make it go boom" parts. Besides, if one does go off in my vicinity, I don't need to worry about anything anymore. I'll be going home.