i just dont know what you're trying to conclude

Something akin to a governing force for your area?

Some sort of agreements, accords in place

You need an army in other words

or a defense agency or militia yeah

Holy shit, sounds like a state to me.

or just a group of losely organized people with guns

And literally everyone will need these armies to keep their stuff

yeah its not too different from a state, it's just not a monopoly on coercion over a geographical zone and subject to market competition, but yeah other than that it's basically a government

Our Constitution already allows for that.

a lot of ancaps make a strong distinction between a state and a government, they say they actually want a government, but not a state

but i kind of end up using the terms interchangeably

So ancaps change definitions to suit their purposes...

*sigh*

But you do have a monopoloy on force over a certain geographical area

everyone fights over definitions tbh

Otherwise how would you control your property

When in doubt I resort to a dictionary...

yeah thats fair, but statists have an easier time calling dibs on a continent than private actors

```Definition of state
a : a politically organized body of people usually occupying a definite territory; especially : one that is sovereign```

So you arent against states

you just want more smaller ones as opposed to larger ones

With the US constitution, we came SO DAMNED CLOSE to getting something right.

What we have presently goes entirely against the constitution it's based on

That's why I'm a reformist. I want to see it enforced as it was meant to be.

could we try to avoid semantics a bit

We *could* but that would just be a point for you.

I do understand that you are against the monopoly on force

See, my principles call for a solid set of definitions before conversation can really happen.

lol ok im not your boss

The only thing you can do with monopolies is break them up

Holding companies shouldn't be a thing, for one thing.

im not even sure you could have a solid set of definitions if a language itself is inherently ambiguous

We have books for that.

This game has rules.

yeah and i think market competition breaks up monopolies, while traditional governments causes them to form

DnD has the core rulebook, we have dictionaries.

corporations seems to inherit the monopoly aspect of the state through lobbying and regulatory capture and so on

even government contracting

Oh absolutely. it's disgusting.

When you think of just how much power Google has