WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MUTUAL INSURANCE, FREE-RIDING AND PARASITISM? And

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MUTUAL INSURANCE, FREE-RIDING AND PARASITISM?

And how does one know those points of demarcation?

The central problem of human cooperation is not violence, it is free-riding. Violence and theft in-group, turns out to be fairly easy to suppress. But free-riding in-group is very hard to suppress.

So, to use a common libertarian philosophical error, lets look at Crusoe’s island. Why? Because the central problem of cooperation for any human being is that he is born into a tribe that raises him, whether that tribe is a pair or few dozen parents. So the model we must work from instead, is an island evenly distributed with individuals of different ages and abilities, all of whom naturally try to free-ride on one another. Free riding is a useful strategy for a multi-generational animal that requires high investment parenting.

1) Rearing and Care-taking

2) Mutual Insurance

3) Free-Riding

4) Parasitism

5) Fraud by omission

6) Fraud by misrepresentation

7) Entrapment

8) Theft

9) Violence