I'm not even picking some random libertarian to make fun of, this dude is a scholar at Cato

  • ButtFungus [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    agree to my terms in exchange for not being mowed down by my army

    No, see, this is impossible, because everyone has to follow the NAP

    • Owl [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Raising a private army needs a lot of money, and the largest private army (the one that gets to dictate terms) will be the most expensive. That money comes from the profit from voluntary transactions; if the people participating in these transactions did not want there to be a giant private army they would not trade with the giant-private-army-haver. Thus by virtue of the fact that someone has a giant private army, we can conclude that the majority of people consent to this state of affairs. So there's no violation of the NAP, you got into this situation via a series of voluntary transactions.

      (lol.)