I'm not quite convinced on this whole anarcho capitalism thing, and would like some help finding out if it's right for me:
In Ancapistan, I've been told privately owned courts settle legal issues. Say I've robbed someone's house, ripped someone off, whatever it is, and they're taking me to court over it; who decides what court we use? Say there's a court with 90% rate of accused getting off, and another with 90% getting convicted. Obviously I will want it to take place in the former and they will want it to take place in the latter. How is this resolved? If I murder someone, have I voided my rights to be protected by the NAP? If so, for how long, if not forever? If not forever, can a court sentence me to a punishment without violating the NAP if I decide I'd rather not be punished? What is there to make a large, powerful company hold true to the NAP when it may be in their interests to violate it if it produces a better product (e.g. threatening/carrying out threats on competition, that kind of sly tactics). Does masturbating in public while naked violate the NAP? I get that companies can build roads, but unless a single company is able to hold a monopoly on all the roads (in which case, considering society is built around roads, they could extort everyone) won't this mean I'll need to pay at a different toll booth at every turn essentially?
You're not making Capitalism any better… You're just making Anarchy worse.
Zachary Cruz
There will always be hierarchical power structures, and if you think that abolishing government is going to change or improve that, you're a quixotic child.
Ever see Gangs of NY? Multiply the population by about 15, and you'll get a good idea of how retarded anarchist ideology is. Kek. We live in a control society, and we always will.
Isaac Wright
Gangs were created because of the govt
Ethan Jones
anarcho capitalism is based on hypocrisy. This is why people always make fun of it. You can't be an anarchist while supporting a system that is based on capitalism. You are just being a pawn in a political system that is based on structure. Capitalism is based on a free market that is based on a structured market that relies on competition. It relies on an enterprise that is based on competition. Then you have anarchism that is based on no rulers. You think that people with no rules or ideology can somehow take control of this system. That is retarded.
A system needs a ruler.
Nathan Long
The NAP is filled with holes that ancaps aren't willing to address. They speak of it as though it is the second golden rule, but if you actually consider it, barely anyone abides by it. The only true adherents to the NAP are people like Jains living away in the mountains not eating meat (this aggresses against the animal), not using technology that pollutes the environment (aggresses toward anyone who breaths the polluted air), and going out of their way to avoid harming anything (true non-aggression). Unless ancaps are willing to go to this extent, they don't follow the NAP, they follow the NAP* and as such should not be taken seriously, as they don't even take themselves seriously.
Ryder Allen
Regardless, the city was virtually in a state of lawlessness, where people were essentially left to their own devices and public institutions were largely privatized. And in that vulnerable state, you will always have opportunistic vultures who end up taking advantage; thus, power structures inevitably arise.
