Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site topaz.RUTGERS.EDU Path: utzoo!decvax!bellcore!petrus!sabre!zeta!epsilon!gamma!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!qantel!dual!lll-crg!seismo!columbia!topaz!josh From: josh@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU (J Storrs Hall) Newsgroups: net.politics.theory Subject: Re: (micromotives & macrobehavior) Message-ID: <3636@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> Date: Thu, 12-Sep-85 16:20:17 EDT Article-I.D.: topaz.3636 Posted: Thu Sep 12 16:20:17 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 15-Sep-85 09:34:51 EDT Reply-To: josh@topaz.UUCP (J Storrs Hall) Distribution: na Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 32 [Mike Huybenz] >> >...how would the market provide defense against a competing political >> >power? [me] >> >> Why do you assume it wouldn't? Military struggles are generally decided >> >> on the relative size and economic productivity of the countries involved, >> >> not on the ideologies thereof. > >So what makes you think libertaria would be economically bigger than any >other country? In another note, you were talking about multiple governments >within libertaria, that you could switch like you switch supermarkets. >Why can't they be conquored one by one by a smaller power until either all >of libertaria is conquored or the governments consolidate into one political >organism? a) there can be mutual defense pacts (NATO for example) which do not constitute a consolidation into "one political organism". b) It would be difficult to attack one of a number of geographically coextensive "subscription governments" without attacking people under the protection of most the others. Thus it wouldn't make sense to try to conquer them "one by one". A distributed "government" has considerable advantages over a conventional geographical one in an era of widespread nuclear or other weapons of mass destruction. A geographical gov't is easy to hit, but moreover, to hit *exclusively*; but with the "libertarian" style intermixed polities, it's as if you couldn't bomb France without simultaneously hitting Germany, Switzerland, England, Italy, Poland, Yugoslavia, Sweden, and the USSR. Hornets nest time! --JoSH