Silly Arguments for the State: To avoid being preyed upon, we should prey upon each other.

[hazeywolf]

You aren't discussing a working Republican Liberal Democracy, but perhaps describing plutocractic-oligarchy or corporatocracy, which is what we have in the USA and which some suggest is the inevitable evolutionary outcome of any system of government.

The argument for a Republican Liberal Democratic state is what most people claim to argue for without realizing they exist in a plutoarchy.

“Well, Doctor, what have we got—a Republic or a Monarchy?” “A Republic, if you can keep it.” - BF

[creamrising]

I can still give 5 stars on YouTube mobile! WoOt!

[nightpotato]

Well said!

[Clint7981]

Awesome! Great argument.

[edknaves]

My father was a very big man. And all his life he wore a black mustache. When it was no longer black, he used a small brush, such as ladies use for their eyes. Mascara.

[return135]

to paraphrase hoppe: an expropriating property protector is a contradiction.