I don’t care about one individual’s life. The only proper form of government is that which respects and upholds natural law, stands out of the way of people’s individual liberties (without respect to their effects upon others of the nation), and which jealously guards the nation against foreign interference and domestic enslavement.
A proper government exists only to protect “laws” which are part of natural human interaction in the first place. It may well codify them in writing, but only to ensure they are not ✡misunderstood.✡
An idealist then? No such government has ever existed in recorded human history. Maybe for brief periods under just sovereigns you'd get something approaching. Natural human interaction makes for a life that is nasty, brutish and short.
That’s the thing about ideals: they exist in their own vacuum as aspirations. Doesn’t mean we shouldn’t work toward them. Their guidepost against which to lean.
brief periods under just sovereigns
And what’s wrong with that? Better than never having it.
Natural human interaction makes for a life that is nasty, brutish and short.
Doesn’t seem to have been the case in the early US. Self-reenforcing social convention does better at upholding civilization than a dictator.
That’s as may be, but I fail to see what it has to do with the topic of minarchism.
"...I fail to see..."
That's ultimately the problem with libertarianism in a nutshell.
I don’t care about one individual’s life. The only proper form of government is that which respects and upholds natural law, stands out of the way of people’s individual liberties (without respect to their effects upon others of the nation), and which jealously guards the nation against foreign interference and domestic enslavement.
A proper government exists only to protect “laws” which are part of natural human interaction in the first place. It may well codify them in writing, but only to ensure they are not ✡misunderstood.✡
An idealist then? No such government has ever existed in recorded human history. Maybe for brief periods under just sovereigns you'd get something approaching. Natural human interaction makes for a life that is nasty, brutish and short.
That’s the thing about ideals: they exist in their own vacuum as aspirations. Doesn’t mean we shouldn’t work toward them. Their guidepost against which to lean.
And what’s wrong with that? Better than never having it.
Doesn’t seem to have been the case in the early US. Self-reenforcing social convention does better at upholding civilization than a dictator.