Except that is clearly not real anarchy. It is a balance of power between the states. The states themselves ARE the security forces in this proposal. I’m saying that they would conquer everyone who doesn’t belong to one.
Yes, anarcho-capitalists accept that ~everyone will hire a security agency. This isn’t a refutation of anarchism.
The point is that security agencies have incentive to compete on quality, whereas current governments don’t (as much), so the quality of security agencies would be higher than the quality of governments today.
So the example given to decry a hypothetical, obviously bad situation applies even better to what they’re proposing. It’s every bit the same coercion as they’re decrying, but with less personal benefit and choice (you get nothing out of this deal.). And they admit this? This is self-refuting.
Security agencies don’t have any more reason to compete on quality than countries do, it’s actually less, because they have every bit as much force, and you don’t really have any say. What, you’re in the middle of a million people with company A security, and you think you can pick B and they’ll be able to do anything?
Except that is clearly not real anarchy. It is a balance of power between the states. The states themselves ARE the security forces in this proposal. I’m saying that they would conquer everyone who doesn’t belong to one.
Yes, anarcho-capitalists accept that ~everyone will hire a security agency. This isn’t a refutation of anarchism.
The point is that security agencies have incentive to compete on quality, whereas current governments don’t (as much), so the quality of security agencies would be higher than the quality of governments today.
Yes, but they also have an incentive to use coercion directly, ie. to offer protection from themselves.
So the example given to decry a hypothetical, obviously bad situation applies even better to what they’re proposing. It’s every bit the same coercion as they’re decrying, but with less personal benefit and choice (you get nothing out of this deal.). And they admit this? This is self-refuting.
Security agencies don’t have any more reason to compete on quality than countries do, it’s actually less, because they have every bit as much force, and you don’t really have any say. What, you’re in the middle of a million people with company A security, and you think you can pick B and they’ll be able to do anything?