Theme: Coercion

—“The only people who would be interested in living in a private law society are those people who follow the NAP, i.e., libertarians. So there won’t be any vigilantes, criminal in general, or left- or right-wingers living in a private law society, period.”–David

The opposite will occur david. Because ‘arbitrary law’ societies cannot compete against highly redistributive polities where one loses a greater percentage of his income to taxation but gains disproportionately higher income and consumption. This is why anarchism fails: commons are necessary to compete for lower opportunity and transaction costs. Libertarians (rothbard) could not figure out how to solve the problem of voluntary commons and by consequence, free riding, and the ostraciziation of free riders. But that is just an admission of failure, not a success. It is a choice of a political LUDDITE. Unable to solve the present problem attempts to destroy the source of his ability to make the choice.

We know this through demonstrated preference. People do NOT go join ‘libertarian’ outposts. Because the total cost is far higher than the total gain.

‘Arbitrary law’ societies attract people for whom the cost of parasitism upon the productivity of others is less than they can obtain from parasitism upon the productivity of others.

And they only last as long as some group doesn’t choose to destroy them.