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Originally posted by RougeUnderoos@Sep 21 2005, 11:48 AM
Where did you get this "99%" business? I've a sneaking suspicion you just made that up to fit your argument and it's, umm, not true. Not even close. 99% of people will not voluntarily help out someone in need.
Are people obligated to help me? No, because I don't need help. Am I obligated to help people that need it? Yes. In your fantastic system, I'd like to think I'd help someone out if they needed it, but maybe I wouldn't. Maybe I wouldn't even know someone needed my help. Would there be some overarching organization that would let me know if a woman across town with drug dealers in her yard needed my help?
Maybe we'd find it more convenient to, you know, all pay into a pot to make sure the private police force just looks after everyone in town. That sound reasonable?
Forget all the philosophical debates and blather, just the amount of paperwork of your anarchocapitalist society is enough to turn me off. If I had to write a cheque to my kid's teacher, the janitor at the school, my road crew, my private police force, sidewalk maintenance guy, the guys in the alley fixing the water pipes, the guy above them fixing the power lines, the street sweeper, tree pruner, air traffic controller, bus driver, doctor on call for me at the hospital and the nurse... and on and on, well, I'd never have time to make money.
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i dont know about 99% of everyone else, but i know 100% of myself would help out someone in need, and i would rather give my money willfully to a private charity who would use it more effectively and efficiently than the government.
legalized drugs would eliminate the drug dealer problem.
you could also open up an account at a bank that uses computers so you wouldnt have to write any checks.