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No, I can't give you an example of a successful state without a government because it hasn't as fare as I know been tried, except as a result of Chaos and not by choice. Can you give me an example of a successful peaceful sate with a government? No, you can't, because that's an oxymoron...

Slavery is not voluntary. Slaves do not sign contracts agreeing to work if they can't pay something. Yes, all the same consequences that we have today will probably happen, but it will be based on voluntarism, and not forced upon people. Taxes are justified if people freely sign a contract to...

I'll answer. It seems that you already understand that taxes are violate the NA-principle (?), so I'll jump to the bill-problem. One can not break the non-aggression principle no matter what. But the enforcement of bills-problem can be solved by agreeing to singn a contract that says if you...

Any particulrar perticular part you want me to read? Or should I link you North-Korea and we can call it even? How do you know this? What about the alternative of a peaceful society in which all forms of aggression is fought? With police founded by people who want to be protected.

This is ridiculous. Are you suggesting that paying taxes is voluntary? People might have agreed to maintain the system, but not all who are included in that system agreed to keep it. They are forced to pay by the threat of violence. Violence is no good basis for a ethical society. I don't...

Your implementation of anarchy is purely unconvincing speculation, which I don't buy. Also you seem to think that you can decide what other people can do and that you can decide that WE should break the NA principle because you think it would lead to less violence. This is absurd. You don't get...

I was trying to be funny, but I guess it didn't work. My answer to the previous question about John Doe would be, in all seriousness: RichardMNixon said he was lying between two privately owned roads, perhaps the people owning the roads would be the ones to take care of the body? What would...

As long as you can do something without initiation force, then go ahead. But you do not have the right to break the non-aggression principle no matter how scared you are about the consequences. Neither do I, or any of us. If we start by breaking the NA principle, then we are criminals...

He lies there and rot I suppose. Perhaps some crows will feed on him.

We have a system where the biggest mob can tell other people how to live, who to marry, what to put in their bodies and take their money and use it for whatever they like. I was a socialist for the 20 first years of my life. I then changed my mind because of the non-aggression principle. Not...

You really are looking for every single problem you can find, aren't you? Why is that? The same exact problems can be found in the system we have now. I could probably write a long reply and attempt to answer these questions, but I think you can do so yourself if you give it a try. Do you...

By writing in the contract how it should be enforced. By signing the contract, both parties agree voluntary to receive whatever enforcement is in the contract. O' lord! Did you think I was against self defence? I thought I had made that pretty clear, but sorry if I didn't. If people are...

I don't get how you can think that people won't defend themselves like they always have. You should also remember that it's fully possible (and preferable) to have a government that protects people from violence, fraud and theft, without it having to be financed through force. You can have...

This is very speculative. You seem to think that if there isn't a government everyone gets attacked. Why? By who? This is almost to speculative for me to answer. What I do want to say is: I don't care. We have to start with agreeing not to use violence and force. Then deal with whatever...

Do you think that way? Do most of the people you know think that way? I define criminals by if they break the non-aggression principle or not, and so do most people I think, although the majority of people also include non-violent crimes as immoral because they are "against the law". Non-violent...

If there was no state and nobody to pay to help me, I'd have to have a heroic fight to the death with them myself, or get help from friends/ people who saw the aggressors acting immoral and wanted to help. Having a "state" is not immoral as long as the sate doesn't DO anything immoral. The...

I'd defend myself against their aggression. I'd also probably get help to do so from either the state in a minarchy or from a private security agency in an anarchy. I was thinking of the growth in America before they started going to war and the state grew in the 1900s as opposed to what we...

What's the difference between organized crime and the state? - Not much, if any. I'd say the State IS organized crime. States are especially good at stealing money through taxation and murder through wars. I don't think the government is committing aggression only against the wealthy, but...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-aggression_principle This is why I am an anarchist/libertarian and why I think any ethical person should be.