It is in fact extremely hard to gauge. My argument here was not a very strong one. I think however that your argument is equally weak in that it assumes people to be at the same level of respect, much as mine does little more than assume people to be at a higher level of respect.

Regardless of this, anarchy theoretically does not require people to be universally or even any more respectful than they already are in order to function adequately. David Friedman addresses this in The Machinery of Freedom.

Did I say human nature was one of universal respect?

Libertarianism is NOT about imaginary societal ideals that can never be attained. It is about imaginary society ideals that have already been attained and can be applied to right here and right now. The ends ARE the means. I am not a Marxist utopian. I do not pretend that we need to convince some giant cohort of the population to have a revolution to seize control of the government, peacefully by voting or otherwise, to make liberty reign ad desgroy the state or let it "whither away." I am not a utopian.

The ends I describe are not some lofty goal. I practice it every fucking day. It is called be humble, be kind, don't be arrogant, have discussions, learn about reality, recognize your own error. When you start to believe that you can work toward a peaceful society by doing ANYTHING other than peaceful action, stopping to assess and understand stuff, or retribution to stop an aggressor, then you have become a utopian. A fool. A nincompoop.

Specifically on the basic level of slavery. Most people today believe that slavery is a bad thing and that no one should be a slave, and seeing all human beings as, well, human beings, mostly. We have made progress toward the libertarian society that I and other consent radicals want. I think that this most basic thing is pretty much irrefutable.

This has coincided also with massive economic growth since the gradual abolition of slavery in the 1800s, and I think there is some significant bidirectional causality there. It is much harder for people to be complacent with there being slaves everywhere when they have enough comforts to now think about other people. Slavery is also inefficient and unsustainable, and its removal brings more profits to those who do not construct power structures to keep people enslaved. These power structures, incidentally, can only be constructed at great expense, usually with other people's money, as slavery loses money when protection of that alleged right is left up to individuals. Once it is no longer supported by the state, it is almost universally eradicated.

To reduce harm in the world, and within that to create wealth and options for people and a plethora of interesting discussions. You've furthered my libertarian goal of reducing harm by continuing about peacefully and following your values, doing noncoercive actions.

I mean that most individuals are generally pretty respectful of people, moreso than most individuals in ancient Rome.

You're on the right track. It doesn't even need that much doninance (of people who are totally 100% libertarians) for anarchy to work. But yes culture is the most important ingredient. The culture needs to be compatible with libertarianism, and provided there are options on the market, the anarchy becomes self-sustaining.

Good job. You accidentally furthered my goal. Just because you don't personally see how a process works, doesn't mean it does not exist. Not every single person in the universe needs to respect people in order to have a libertarian society. And not even the majority of people need to understand the theory, either. There are things which operate all the time which contribute to the workings of the market that no one sees. Yet they are indispensable. Reality is more than what you see.

An alternative question: what is it that has caused the difference between the Roman Empire, which had slaves, and The United States, which has very few slaves (a few sex slaves here and there but it's illegal)? Is an increase in basic respect on a societal level truly impossible?

People who dismiss the capacity for people to change their behavior (not by force, but by a natural process over time) are so abysmally ignorant of reality and in contradiction of the fact of their own perception of interpersonal affairs and of history that they can deceive themselves into thinking or feeling anything.

Did you murder anyone today or steal from them?

https://youtu.be/sR1JYfI2Md8

I wonder what this will do to the demand on sperm banks.

I love Karl Popper's epistemology of Critical Rationalism, because it takes the only logical stance: "I don't know, and neither do you, but an open mind and severe criticism may get us closer to the truth."

I'm studying philosophy on my own right now. Realizing that all the idiotic thoughts people have come from bad philosophy, whether implicit or explicit. As a kid I always wondered why adults say such stupid things. I frequently suspected, and now I know, they simply aren't rational and always appeal to some misguided concept of one authority or another.

BASED #JavierMilei

https://youtu.be/psDqn6KCrJ4

Thank you!

You can probably do coinswaps on whirlpool with Samourai or Sparrow, to get the bitcoin clean, and then send that over to a Zeus embedded node on your phone to set up a lightning channel. It's a bit technical, and I haven't even done the opening a channel part yet, being a bit daunted by the details, but I believe that is the most user-friendly tech out there right now to accomplish what you want. Zeus is awesome, and it has some documentation on how to get the most privacy out of it.

Same thing. They just like their brand of it because why use logic??

Ayyy publicity! Finally some mainstream turd burglars accepting that Bitcoin is one of the most useful moneys out there.

This is why Christianity and many other faiths, properly understood, have a strong root in forgiveness and in trusting the unknown to resolve itself without your fiat.