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>and
your reason for believing that given a truly blank slate, human society
would evolve any differently than it currently has is...?
Let's
first consider the reality of the situation. We're not going to
magically have a clean slate. What I'm saying is that if we educate
people about what government is then they will see that they'd be better
off without government. Not only that, but I want to make it clear that
if you want government then I have no problem with that. My problem is
with the nature of government. It effectively subjugates society without
choice, I can't refuse the authority of it. I'm told that I can vote or
leave, but this is not real choice. The democracy is tyranny of the
majority, and if I leave one locale I will only end up in another with
basically the same rules.
>i mean to
raise the point that society has already evolved once, and that to
suggest that it would- if somehow set back again- ever progress
differently is delusion.
Emergentism is a concept that it
took me a while to come around to. First I was a minarchist libertarian,
then I realised the lie of the state and came to anarcho-capitalism
with natural property rights and the non-aggression axiom, and then I
began to question the reality of moral standards and came to nihilism,
but by this point I was struggling to link anarcho-capitalism to
nihilism, despite the evident truths I'd seen for both of them. It's
lucky at this point that I stumbled across emergentism. The concept of
emergentism is much too deep for me to explain in one or even several
posts, if you are really interested please try this series:
http://www.youtube.com/user/foranemergentgov |
