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> Do you think we will forever be organized and segregated by governments?

> Do you ever think a human being can be a sovereign individual in his own right, without owing fealty, taxes and morality to a government in some future?

Without governments, how are social strictures enforced? How are externalities, positive or negative, accounted for? How does a government-less world not look like Somalia? (Or are you suggesting that you really would like to live in a place like Somalia?)

This isn't to suggest that existing governments are perfect (far from it), but it seems to me that the anarchic counterpart is infinitely worse.




Fun fact: Somalia seemed to do a lot better without government than with a government. (though of course it's not simple) https://www.peterleeson.com/Better_Off_Stateless.pdf




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