Keegan’s last e-mail:
Your entire argument is, “What I say can happen and anything that doesn’t make sense I don’t have to explain because I don’t have to know every detail. A man doesn’t have to set up gas stations before making an automobile.” This is it entirely. And you feel that I should be convinced by this…interesting. But really its more like someone saying, “Teleportation can exist.” And when I say to this, but matter cannot be transported faster than the speed of light (or something along those lines), your response is “I don’t need to know all the details to know it can happen.”
The law issue is a big deal, and one that must be answered some way. If one group’s laws say that possession of drugs is punishable by death, and another’s does not, there will be innocent people punished. Not by mishap, but by the system itself.
The police arresting innocent people is another one that is vital (actually the same one) but you misunderstood my argument completely. There are mechanisms to control this in the State system, of course it won’t work perfectly, but I can see of no way at all for this to function in a Stateless system. So I asked the supposed Guru, and you answered, “I don’t have to answer that.” You hint at the free-market taking care of this, but my question was not that the police would harm those that are paying them, but instead those that are not. I don’t see how free-market cures this.
You insinuate that my questions are a barage of unrelated questions constantly moving the target of where you are shooting, but so far as I can see you haven’t taken a shot and the target is still in the same place. Granted it may be impossible to hit from your position, but that doesn’t mean the target is in the wrong place, only that you must abandon your position in order to take a decent shot.
So no, I don’t feel that I should be convinced by your arguments. But do I feel you should be convinced by mine? No. I couldn’t convince you that a community without private goods or a free market is not capitalism, how could I possibly convince you of anything? Moreover I didn’t really make much argument, I was only trying to get you to settle on a position. Only after you settled on how anarchy works could an argument discussing whether it was possible or good even start. I don’t fight with the air, it just moves when I try.
I am afraid that your bloated head has permanently closed your eyes. Which I don’t much care about, but I just thought you could point me in the right direction. I didn’t realize you were just flailing your arms.
With hope that eventually some prick will deflate it,
Keegan
