Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site umich.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!mb2c!umich!torek 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 Article-I.D.: umich.239 Posted: Thu Sep 19 11:38:50 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 20-Sep-85 06:09:58 EDT 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 Lines: 20 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...