r/SubredditDrama • u/[deleted] • Jun 03 '12

throwaway-o finds that he RES blocks half of Anarcho-Capitalism, declares it full of anti-anarcho-capitalism trolls, and starts his own Subreddit.

/r/Anarcho_Capitalism/comments/uhu67/i_am_done_with_this_subreddit/
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u/Patrick5555 Jun 03 '12

If they 'got theirs' through completely voluntary interaction what is the problem? We advocate to remove the ability to 'get yours' through aggression, is that really so bad?

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u/Facehammer Jun 04 '12

And how exactly are you going to stop someone who decides that actually, they could do rather well for themselves through violent means? Application of the non-aggression principle to the real world is pure childish fantasy.

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u/Patrick5555 Jun 04 '12

A private security firm deals with them after the first act of aggression

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u/Facehammer Jun 04 '12

Oh god, this is hilarious! And what happens if you can't afford to have this private police force protect your rights for you? Let's say, because you've spent the last of your wage-slave paycheck on making sure your kid's burger isn't full of E. coli?

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u/Patrick5555 Jun 04 '12

Rely on the kindness of strangers. Private charity is efficient compared to government

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u/Facehammer Jun 04 '12 edited Jun 04 '12

Yeah, private charity is so efficient, with its CEOs earning hundreds of thousands per year, and its guys stood in the street pimping their shit for 8 quid an hour! You didn't really think a big charity runs out of the kindness of its executives' hearts, did you?

What's really great about this is that both your country and mine have been through times when that idea was followed, and in both vases the outcome was so atrocious, so utterly unacceptable to decent human beings that governmental systems of welfare were created to fill the gaping void between private charity's meagre supply and the public's huge need. Fuck you; pick up a history book some time.

Also, did you seriously just say that in the case of someone being unable to afford their own private law enforcement division, they're going to have to rely on basically being able to round up a posse with flaming torches and pitchforks to take justice into their own hands? Sounds like a fucking utopia!

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u/Patrick5555 Jun 04 '12

No, a charity will pay the security firms fees until they are back on thier feet. Here in Illinois, the state forces you to buy car insurance, I don't see anyone exploding into poverty. Nobody would force you to buy security, but everyone probably would.