Risk within Market Anarchy

luke:
http://uk.youtube.com/user/Luke12000

A system based on free competition creates antagonisms and increases risks to a level that cannot be controlled by any moral guidelines but by the market itself. The chance of being coerced is lower in market anarchy than it is in any state environment, but the coercive force suffered under market anarchy is dramatically increased over what is experienced within or by the state.

Subjective perceptions and realities of force and risk vary between individuals based on personality type and demographic group to the extent that the percentage of people that do face coercive force suffer as a result they themselves have an increased chance of perpetrating an increased level of coercive force upon other individuals or groups. Coercive force becomes a tolerated norm, dictated by the market itself: Such as terrorism is defined by statists in this era, coercive force becomes defined by key demographic groups under market anarchy. As such, the rule will not vanish, it will change hands, change ideology, not into one which proponents of market anarchy wish, but one that competition dictates and still within a hierarchical framework that is the underlying structure that has perpetuated age-old group antagonisms. That word again: dictates.

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[billyjoeallen]

PSI is pounds(force) per square inch and is a unitit of PRESSURE, not force. Any unit if weight (as opposed to mass) is a unit of force.

It kind of discredits you when you start out making a physics 101 mistake.

[gratex]

I had to watch the video to know what you were referring to, but I talked about force as being in Newtons, not PSI. Why would I talk about PSI? I live in Europe, which is in the 21st century. Pressure is measured in kg/m^2 as it should be. People discredit themselves by being pedantic, but you couldn't even get that right.

[billyjoeallen]

I admit to being pendantic, but I am right that you confused pressure with force. Watch it again, Homes. Learn to take some constructive criticism.

[gratex]

constructive criticism would be counter-arguing the arguments, not taking heed of the waffle between the arguments. There's some constructive criticism for you.

[Luke12000]

Coercive force is pretty objective, it's the difference between a consensual arrangement and a non-consensual arrangement (the difference between everyday sex...and rape). And although there are gray areas (like in anything), for instance a woman might claim that she was raped because she was drunk. But the same gray areas will always exist. And in an anarchist society, any details of what coercion meant could be laid out contractually.

[gratex]

contractually! Yes. Sadly, competition stops being about who can be the best and starts being about who can avoid the awful contracts. Who can avoid becoming a chimney sweep?

[billyjoeallen]

Fair enough. Why would market-derived moral guidelines be inferior to any other moral guidelines?

[billyjoeallen]

at 1:49 you said "That's what force is, right? pounds per square inch- in Europe, we measure it in Newtons."

I'd rather be pedantic than wrong.

[gratex]

something tells me his heart's not in the search.

[lordmetroid]

pft, there are plenty... You just haven't looked good enough.

[westphalianprinz]

Have you ever met someone who wasn't North American who was a "market anarchist"? I haven't. And I've looked.

This is an America only thing.

It should tell you why we're so utterly screwed.