Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site cybvax0.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!harvard!talcott!panda!genrad!mit-eddie!cybvax0!mrh From: mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz) Newsgroups: net.politics.theory Subject: Re: (micromotives & macrobehavior) Message-ID: <766@cybvax0.UUCP> Date: Fri, 20-Sep-85 15:12:54 EDT Article-I.D.: cybvax0.766 Posted: Fri Sep 20 15:12:54 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 22-Sep-85 16:36:37 EDT References: <3689@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> Reply-To: mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz) Organization: Cybermation, Inc., Cambridge, MA Lines: 31 In article <3689@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> josh@topaz.UUCP (J Storrs Hall) writes: > In article <761@cybvax0.UUCP> mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz) writes: > >Great. Your brilliant working scheme sucessfully killed a platoon. > >The whole rest of libertaria has been conquored, and you are surrounded. > > ... anybody can dream up bad situations and rhetorically place the other > fellow in them... Quite true. The question is, what will your system do to prevent this sort of occurrence? "United we stand, divided we fall": how does libertaria cope with the principle of this aphorism? > >> I'd personally favor an assassination defense... > > >... YOU are even more vulnerable, because of the openess of your society. > > Exactly wrong, because a market doesn't have a leader. The whole point > of this discussion is to compare a rigid command hierarchy to a > decentralized, self-organizing market system. Organization is not free: it requires time and effort. Succession in a rigid command hierarcy can be quite swift and efficient, and we can assume an aggressor has expended the startup effort. How prepared will a libertarian society be, when there is no profit to be made from that organization while it is idle in peacetime? And how will alot of "decentralized" low-level assassination targets meet to decide on who will be the high-level targets (let alone anything else during an invasion), without making themselves vulnerable? -- Mike Huybensz ...decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!cybvax0!mrh