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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
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Posted: Fri Sep 20 15:12:54 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 22-Sep-85 16:36:37 EDT
References: <3689@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU>
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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?
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Mike Huybensz		...decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!cybvax0!mrh