>>386235>Freedom to aquire capital can entail the freedom to aquire capital using degeneracy scams.That sounds like you're saying "freedom allows people the freedom to do bad things", is this what you mean? So we ban guns, then knives, then sticks, finally pre-emptively lock everyone in a padded cell in case they do bad things like the UK?
Even if we go with such an absurd policy, then the amoral issue crops up of "how do we ensure those in government are incorruptible benevolent dictators?", such a system would be very easy to corrupt, which I think is obvious.
>boomer neocon inc. are pro-capitalistI don't agree, they're quite happy with the huge regulatory states we have across the west that strangle innovation and industry. I think the "boomers" are just used to their socalist-lite upbringing.
>many assets would not exist without labor in the first placeAnd the men that produced labor would not have been fed or paid if someone else didn't want that assets made at the end of it.
>The state still serves a purpose other than just taking. Such as military and border security. I'm not understanding these two sentences correctly. Are the military and border security examples of purposes other than taking stuff? If so, how can the state have a purpose in "just taking"? Isn't just taking stuff what criminals and thieves do? If a state was only just taking, it'd be identical to a criminal gang.
As for the state's purpose being those examples of military and border security, I believe it is possible for those examples to be supplanted by mass ownership of firearms for the reason I eluded to in my prior post.
>I dont think the mass ownership of firearms means the state can be done away with.Fair enough, but can you see the possibility that a new force amplifier could be invented with particular characteristics like ease of use, logistical simplicity, high force amplification, would make it very hard for a minority to gain a monopoly on violence? Basically following a similar line to nuclear M.A.D principles.
>Having home security doesnt protect youIt's more game-theory. There are limits and conditions to meet I concede, but mass gun ownership could replace the job of police and military systems.
On the small criminal scale, mass gun ownership protects by this:
If your a crim, you know the likelihood of your would-be victim being armed is high. You know your chance of getting in a gunfight is moderate (say more than 10%). A gunfight has a high chance of you getting killed. Thus you predict your chance of dying when carrying out a crime is at least in the single digits of percent.
From that you conclude that a life of crime where you must carry out multiple crimes a year would leave you with an almost certain chance of getting shot. Thus very few people (compared to today) would carry out crime.
On the large nation scale, mass gun ownership protects by this:
If you’re a country with a government hungrily eyeing up Ancapistan, your army faces a problem; if it takes over some patch of land, it won’t be able to extract resources from it without fighting the locals. At first there’s two paths around this problem;
You could attempt door-to-door confiscation. This works when the victimized population is much smaller than your army, you can spend lots of soldiers who get shot by the family members of the home they’re raiding. Perhaps you only loose a soldier every other house.This method isn’t practical at the country scale because you’d need the biggest army the earth’s ever seen. This is complicated by the need of all your soldiers to be psychopaths who are happy to personally murder entire families. Also will take a very long time confiscating the entire country’s guns like this.
The second option is to carpet bomb the country. Kill and destroy everyone and anything that could be used to hide under and snipe your supply lines from. This method costs lots of money because carpeting a country in an a few acre-feet of TNT isn’t cheap. It also depletes your country’s military stockpiles which you need to defend your own country from other nations. A major problem with carpet bombing a country is you’ve necessarily wiped out anything of value that you could’ve otherwise stolen or enslaved, leaving you with a limited number of reasons to invade in the first place. This is all compounded by the fact you just genocided a country showcasing willing to go to use such awe-inspiring means to gain such minuscule ends; indicating you’re not someone who’s going to be good at negotiations.
The outcome of this: Either path requires stupidly large resources. The first only works if you’re Italy trying to fight the Vatican city. The second requires the entire government to be unilaterally insane genocide maniacs, something that’s so unlikely as to be discarded.
The conclusion is that IF (the hard part) you could get society to the point where mass ownership of firearms was morally acceptable and implemented, society would have reached a stable minimum.
Love 6000 char limit.