The Burden of Proof Challenge

I challenge all believers in government (libertarian minarchists, right-wingers, left-wingers, etc) to answer to the burden of proof.

Extract from chapter 1 of my upcoming book: http://www.marketanarchy.com/node/4

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[pashrak]

I just have some questions, I've been reading up on anarchy, but don't understand some of it. The two classes are the working class in a sense and the ruling class (government) right? When it comes down to the moral issue how is it explained that the working class eventually becomes the ruling class? It seems that the ruling class merely used the tools given to them to become a different class. What insures in anarchy that this thing does not happen and another government isn't simply formed?

[Franc28]

Because a monopoly cannot naturally arise from a competitive market of governance, especially since the demand for governance is very heterogenous (varied in nature).

[NetzKaiser]

I have a question about nuklear weapons.

In "The Machinery of Freedom" David Friedman said that we need government against nuklear weapons. His reason is that nuklear weapon owners can blackmail others to accept them as imperator.

His idea is that the nuklear weapon owners use one atomic bomb and make a movie about and then the show the movie others and tell them that this will happen if they aren't obedient.

So Friedman thinks we need a government with nuklear weapon for retaliation.

[Libertarianist]

Would you accept the position that government is inevitable? If it weren't for government, gangs would rise to power and replace the government. We just call the biggest gang "the government".

[Elhan2005]

He's worth ignoring.

[Franc28]

Yea, okay. You're a crackpot.

[BoruJudasDedrich]

The illusion of State is the great experiment. At first land owners paid for the money, the legal system, and the military; thus the land owners got special protection, special laws, etc. (class system). Market anarchy is here. Then the international banking cartel and corporate globalists have replaced the land owners. The powers that be protect themselves and use us. Thus, market anarchy is making us, at best, second class citizens.

Block away if you can't handle the truth.

[Kbiomech]

I think I should restate what I mean by that. First, the welfare/SSI recipients. They are directly dependent on the state for their living. Secondly, a great deal of the interstate commerce apparat, and thirdly and largest on the tier, the ENTIRE economy is predicated on the value of the dollar. These things need to be dismantled before they collapse in order to peaceably establish anarchy.

[Franc28]

"All successful movements used the threat of violence."

And yet you can't name one. Typical.

[Franc28]

If you make more off-topic comments, I will block you. My goal on the comments for this video is to get arguments from other people who want to justify the State's existence. If you don't want to do that, then please do not post any more comments.