Minarchism beyond Anarchism / Le minarchisme par-delà l'anarchisme

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I decided that after all, I was a minarchist and not an anarchist. Let me explain.

A bigger government is where the proclaimed rulers have greater power, where public force is more positively correlated with their will, at their disposal to impose a less restricted subset of their commands, whims and desires on a wider set of topics and resources

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Some say that there should be term limits for politicians: one term in office and one term in jail. I say there should be only one term, in jail - and even then, just long enough to erect the gallows.

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Or maybe it's two terms indeed: a first one, as brief as possible, waiting for the gallows, and a second one, eternally long, in hell.

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"Proclaimed rulers are just laughed at, or ignored - they are ridiculous clowns whom no one takes seriously"

Except for Joshua Norton the First, Emperor of the USA.

There are rulers in anarchy, indeed, just not everyone agrees on who they are at any given time. Bringing ethics to governance should focus onto reducing the encroachment between disagreeing views to zero.

As for negative incentives applied to actos of governing others... Marshall Sahlins made a career out of documenting the practices of "Big Men" in primitive societies, in which it is not the ordinary man who pays tribute to the big man, but rather the opposite: the Big Man is one who saves and then spends his own surplus of wealth to buy peaceful cooperation from others, as a method for funding public works (building communal houses, landscape forming, etc.).

So, there's subjective value in leading others. You'd criminalize that kind of mutually consensual transaction ?

Hey Fare, here you are not, to me, faring so well as you usually do?

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Hey Fare, here you are not, to me, faring so well as you usually do?

I let it go to your having a bad day and able to laugh at yourself.

You would not initiate force against those who initiate force would you, seriously?

Your other writings so far as I have read are truly wonderful Free Friends proclamations and I am happy I have chanced upon you.

Come join my Free Friends Worldwide, love to have you, and also my Climbing Mount Maslow.
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I want to open a dialogue with you for it is so very very rare I meet a mind with values seemingly identical to mine.

Cheers, Jack in Santiago, Chile by end of this November to the New Land of Zeal for Liberty (aka New ZealLand, my dominain name!)

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Anarchy is where there are no "proclaimed rulers". Anyone that decides to proclaim such would be considered insane and/or ridiculous as you say