So you have no problem with monopolies?
Say rather that "monopoly" does not equal "uttermost evil". It doesn't
have to be a bad thing. A monopoly on force, aka government, doesn't
have to be a bad thing. Oh, wait, yes it does. Still, that's 'cos a monopoly on force (and defense of my person) is qualitatively different than a monopoly on milk.
What happens if the company decides to violate the ZAP ti stay a monopoly?
Then the transgressed-upon defend themselves. Duh. The "A" stands for "aggression" -- ZAP prohibits the
initiation of harm. It puts no restrictions on
response to aggression (though seriously out-of-proportion retaliation will only be undertaken by the terminally stupid).
what about the criminals who attack you when you are vulnerable?
You mean, like
cops who plant evidence?
OK, about gangs -- lessee.
There are more of "us" than of "them". We discuss possible strategies well in advance of need and, if/when need arises, we form ad hoc response teams of whatever sort our community fancies. Maybe we can get rid of them the way India drove out the Brits: total (or near-total) noncooperation.
My community, at least, will follow the dictum "pain delayed is pain multiplied" and not wait till gangs get unmanageably large.
Dude, I ask just one thing,
PUHLEASE: stop asking for perfection. "Well, what about
this problem???" as if we ever said everything would be milk&honey in an AnCap. Get this: there will of course be problems -- and in an AnCap (even a ZAP one) we'll
all of us have
all the options our creative little minds can think of in order to solve them INSTEAD OF rote responses enshrined in <reverential whisper> law that, further, are allowed
only by duly-anointed responders.
I ain't looking to live in a community of no problems. I'm looking to live where creativity hasn't been shut down --
systematically shut down. I tossed out a (just one) suggestion above but the real issue is:
IN AN ANCAP WE CAN DEAL WITH GANGS HOWEVER WE CAN IMAGINE.
UNDER A GOVERNMENT WE HAVE TO SIT BY PASSIVELY AND
HOPE THE COPS CAN AND WILL DO "SOMETHING".
If you'd really rather live hoping for a shining knight to rescue you, well, there's no accounting for taste. Just don't go insisting I join you.
Finally, can you take your own medicine? Can you tell me how I'm supposed to protect myself from my "representatives" who send my protection money (taxes -- if you don't pay up, you get hurt) to bail out improvident bankers and tell me so sorry my house burned down or I got raped or my car broke an axle because the funds weren't there for fire or police or roads? "Voting" them out of office is not an option when nobody knows who tallies ("tallies") the votes.