Message from @Seven Of Swords
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so you're an ancap?
No... I hate capitalism lol
I'm not an an-comm either lol
I don't like the state either lol
as far as I could read your wall of text (I've given up at a certain point), I read that you would want to have another 'non-governmental' entity to regulate
in which case I'll have to tell you that governments started out as 'non-governmental' regulatory entities
Keep reading
so you came up with the same defintion of what we have today, only without the term 'government'
no thanks, like I said I have shit to get done. give a quick rundown and I'll respond accordingly
Keep reading my response and let me know where exactly it is that you thought that I said that.
Do what thou will.
you bet
How can someone suggest that the state holding people at gunpoint in some circumstances is bad, yet in others is justified?
Are we picking and choosing arbitrarily which monopolies of violence that the state has are good and which are not?
>the state holding people at gunpoint is bad
>we should have a state for the sake of providing a military or police force which will hold people at gunpoint
People still need to make up their minds.
If we are simply just going to accept some evils as necessary, why try to change anything if any social system can be argued as having its own problems as being necessary in the first place?
It just makes no sense...
I would really value if this fucking bot would not delete my comments
The bot is annoying lmao
alright so I'll post my answer to your wall of text ON FUCKING PASTEBIN, because of THE FUCKING BOTS
gotcha
@Seven Of Swords it's an ongoing issue I'm trying to fix it
@Andrew The Meme King Gotcha
right there
> Are we picking and choosing arbitrarily which monopolies of violence that the state has are good and which are not?
not arbitrarily. there are necessities which you can't avoid. having a functional army is one of them. try to defend your government-less country from invading forces without a working army
and yes, for those, I'm willing to chip in some part of my income (actually I'm willing to do more, but that's another discussion)
It wouldn't even be a country because countries need borders enforced by those that have obtained a monopoly of violence (e.g. a state or a corporation).
After reading our responses and having a more thorough back and forth, its clear that we do not live on the same planet, but that's ok.
what do you think a country is?
Great question.
In my opinion, a country is just an abstraction concocted by people for the sake of an imagined identity/community.
do you live in the US?
Why does it matter?
because everyone in the US speaks english, and more or less has the same cultural background
Haha no
this is not the same for europe/africa/asia/whatever
Like I said, we don't live on the same planet. I think that the US has many different cultural backgrounds and languages.
oh, so the US is not a country where you can get around with using english?