The rational basis of Anarcho-Capitalism

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I contend, therefore, that believing in the rightness of anarcho-capitalism is a reasoned faith. Your answers will never satisfy us, and our continued questions force you back to the same simple axioms. "



You have your axioms wrong. And my anarcho-capitalism is not a faith. I am an anarcho-capitalist because after years of study I have never, upon sufficient investigation, found ANY good or service that both should be provided for and that government provides for better than the private sector. NONE. Furthermore, for every single good or service that I have EVER been told the private sector cannot provide and government can, after sufficient investigation I have learned of free market mechanisms that seem entirely adequate. EVERY ONE. This includes national defense. Entire scholarly works have been written on the private production and provision of security and defense, and I find their logic lucid, transparent, and inarguable. As I stated above, I'll be starting a thread on national defense under anarcho-capitalism soon.

So there is no faith involved. I do not believe the state is necessary because no one has ever been able to demonstrate that it is. Therefore I am an anarchist. Furthermore, capitalism is the inevitable result of human nature allowed to progress freely, and it produces the best possible outcomes for the largest number of people. Therefore I am a capitalist.

Put them together and I am an anarcho-capitalist.

Contrast this with the typical statist, who rails that the state is necessary for no deeper reasons than that he's been taught that it is throughout 12 to 20 years of government funded education. Who has most likely never investigated the private provision of roads or security, or anything else we are told we need government to do for us because we are too irresponsible or stupid to do it ourselves. Who likely believes that "anarchy" is synonymous with "chaos," and likely believes "capitalism" is synonymous with "exploitation."

In short, the vast majority of people are statists for the same reason they speak whatever language they speak or believe whatever religion they believe. They were raised that way.