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From: torek@umich.UUCP (Paul V. Torek )
Newsgroups: net.politics.theory
Subject: Defense in Libertaria, and other Amazing Stories
Message-ID: <239@umich.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 19-Sep-85 11:38:50 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 19 11:38:50 1985
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References: <3476@topaz.UUCP> <28200073@inmet.UUCP> <567@x.UUCP>
Reply-To: torek@umich.UUCP (Paul V. Torek )
Organization: University of Michigan, EECS Dept., Ann Arbor, MI
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Summary: It cain't be done, Vern!

In article <567@x.UUCP> wjr@x.UUCP (STella Calvert) writes:
>[In Libertaria, I'd] know that my neighbors, likewise free, would be
>ready to defend our common condition of non-coercion by killing the coercers.

Not unless there is a very strong community spirit and you have very brave
neighbors.  Otherwise many neighbors will cop out, either fleeing or hoping
that the rest of the community will succeed while she (the cop-out-er)
covers her ass.  Before the war, the cop-out-ers also don't contribute to
the town's (or region's) Buy-a-tank-and-some-antitank-missiles Fund.

>But (I think I hear a voice crying) how are you going to defend yourself
>against a rival group with nuclear weapons?  Simple.  I'm not. [...] So nuke
>me!  that can be blackmailed into surrendering for the individual.>

How incredibly naive.  As if nuclear terrorism couldn't work by making an
example out of a few libertarian towns and then warning the rest not to
resist -- or else.

--Paul V Torek, busting them simplistic icons over and over and over...