We, the citizens of a formerly free society, agree to give up some of our rights in exchange for the guarantees of a free society.
I don't. I would prefer to select my own guards for my security, thank you.
For all you call me a state apologist, I have loads of complaints about our supposedly free society; a society that will get markedly less free if the Anarcho-Capitalist candidate get elected.
Um... OK. Not how I see AnCap coming to pass, but whatever.
I just dont see how anarchy, and total control of freedom by corporations, will solve all of our current problems.
You have... no idea how AnCap would work. You look at the power corporations have now, and you think "Dear god, what would they be like without government holding them back?" What you refuse to believe, however, is that their power comes entirely
from the government. The regulations that supposedly "hold them back" really prevent competition, by raising the barriers to entry. Under AnCap, the phrase "The customer is always right" would come back. Nowadays, it's more like "The regulations are always right."
In the past, physically and mentally handicapped people were shut in, ignored, abused and/or tortured. Things are better today. Not perfect, as that hidden mic in the handicapped classroom showed us recently, but better.
How will anarchy make life better off for the poor and the handicapped? What about the mentally ill? How will they afford treatment, if they cannot work. What do you do if they refuse treatment?
Send them out into the night and hope some George Zimmerman type takes care of your problem for you?
If everybody has absolute freedom, what about the rights of those who arent even capable of exercising those rights?
Tell you what. If you can tell me what government will do for poor and handicapped (or any) people that cannot be provided by a private charity, I'll toss aside all my objections to government. I've issued this challenge a number of times over the years, and nobody has yet met it.
As for how it will make life for them better, Anarchy removes taxes, which sap the economy at almost every level. Prices go down, real wages go up, and people have more disposable income. They give some of that money to charities, which, as I said above, can do anything the government can do, and probably more efficiently.
American taxation is covered under the same contract law that would be used in an Anarcho-Capitalist system.
You agree to pay a certain amount, and in return you get certain things.
But I don't want those things, and they are making me pay anyway.
If contract law were not to be used in AnCap, the big corporations (and the small ones too) would install such governing authority that provided for the provision and enforcement of contract law.
Contract law would be used, almost to the exclusion of any other kind. (I say almost, because I'm not a lawyer, and thus not fully versed in the various and sundry types of law, I don't know of any that would have the widespread use of contract law, but I might be wrong.) Here's the thing though: You cannot be held to a contract you do not sign. Thus, if I agree, and sign a contract, I can be bound by that. If I do
not agree, and therefore do not sign, I am not bound by that contract.
If there were no government, whats to stop any or all corporations from declaring themselves to be the government of the area they control.
This is not formatted as a question, but I will assume it was meant as one. The answer is simple. Without the perceived legitimacy that government now enjoys (your defense of same shown as evidence), they would meet resistance and vilification at every turn. Kinda hard to sell your product when all your customers hate you.
What do you do if Boeing says "in exchange for the necessities of life, you agree to live under our rules"?
If Boeing is paying the people who run the electricity and water and paying for the police and fire departments, and providing you with a job and money, what do you do? Say "I'm sorry Mr. boss, but no government means no government; I'll take my chances" ?
Sounds great for a bachelor, but what if you have a wife and kids at home? How will you pay the rent, or mortgage.
No government means the landlord or mortgage holder doesnt have any bureaucracy to deal if they want you out. Especially once they hear you have voluntarily walked away from a good, well-paying job.
Well, if Boeing did something like that, I would apply for a job with Airbus, or some other airplane manufacturer that wasn't trying to set up a state, and get the heck out of dodge. Hopefully Boeing would know that ahead of time, and let the market do its job, but I'm fairly certain that at least one company is going to have to go out of business in this way for the rest of them to get the point.