Kinda piggy-backing off of Megan’s post about “Salon’s question - an article claiming the one question Libertarians couldn’t answer is: If your approach is so great, why hasn’t any country anywhere in the world ever tried it?” There’s two sides to the coin - Freedom and not freedom. Freedom is the market, the aggregate of all voluntary humanity’s interactions. Not freedom is only achieved through the use of force and the threat thereof.This is determined by who has property rights of what is being jurisdiction over. Once an external party get’s involved by threatening or executing force and aggression, there is ‘not freedom.’ Being advocates for freedom, the only alternative would be “Not Freedom.” So what can the Salon say about our approach? In essence, they’re arguing that “Not Freedom” is the only thing that has been tried in the world successfully. But then you have to ask where has a third party institution or person of force developed or improved anywhere near to the success of voluntary human action? Where has the third part institution or person of force taken care of its people nearly as well as voluntary markets? Like Megan said, all voluntary human action is the example and the exact manifestation of our great approach and it’s adopted within every culture. Everyday, most every person on this planet has engaged in a voluntary interaction; buying shoes online, volunteering to be a crosswalk guard, working a job, stopping your car to let a kid bike past. All of this had no third-party institution, person, or group that would have forced the interaction and that is exactly what we are talking about when we say Anarchy - {an}{archy} - No Arch - No monarch, oligarch, no whats, no buts, no coconuts. We can point to every voluntary human interaction as the manifestation of our approach, and that means a whole lot more than just country in the world - it’s the entire human race.
Posted on: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 14:43:45 +0000
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