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From: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.philosophy
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Libertarianism
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Date: Mon, 10-Dec-84 17:29:24 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec 10 17:29:24 1984
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>      I really don't see the need to say anything more about police
> protection. I know that there's a lot of debate going on about the
> desirability of this system. People seem to be afraid of trusting
> private companies with the means to use as much force as they might
> need to use to keep order. Myself, I have a lot more trouble trusting
> GOVERNMENT with that much force; at least under the private system I
> can hire another company to protect me from one that runs amok.

Isn't that known as an arms race?  At what level of nuclear armaments
do your two (or more) companies stop?  In most countries of the Western
world the Government police doesn't need or use as much force as in
the USA, because the "opposition" is not as well armed.  I prefer to
keep the force level low, rather than return to feudal times, when the
strongest baron (read "purveyor of protection") controlled the most
villeins (read "purchasers of protection").
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Martin Taylor
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