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jiggy2011 · 2012-07-13 06:35:14

The only way to achieve this would be to have no law enforcement.

jokethrowaway | karma 2914 | avg karma 1.02 · | 2020-09-06 11:01:06+00:00

You can organise without a government, using the free market. Having competing law enforcement firms would bring competition to a state monopoly that does little to nothing to prevent actual crime and persecute tons of innocent people.

sigzero | karma 4147 | avg karma 1.62 · | 2022-11-09 08:09:45

There is no such government or governmental system that would actually work like that.

MattGaiser | karma 17770 | avg karma 3.3 · | 2023-10-09 11:50:22

No laws but also plenty of rules, but no government to enforce those rules?

spoonjim | karma 4772 | avg karma 2.01 · | 2021-01-04 17:36:29

Why? If there is no law there is no government.

illuminate | karma 899 | avg karma 0.71 · | 2013-03-18 15:06:22+00:00

"without a complete and total police state"

And ~especially~ in a complete and total police state :)

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loudmax | karma 3820 | avg karma 4.09 · | 2022-12-09 08:54:39

This is true in just the same way that a free society would have no have no government at all. No taxes, no laws, no police or judiciary, just complete freedom to do whatever you want to your neighbors.

Ayn Rand's utopia. I wouldn't want to live there.

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johnchristopher | karma 10080 | avg karma 1.96 · | 2013-12-08 21:59:35

If the government hadn't such power, no one would try to influence it.

Spivak | karma 16605 | avg karma 1.79 · | 2017-11-16 21:14:54+00:00

Government could also just imprison you indefinitely for no reason. There can't be rule of law if nobody expects rule of law.

sudosysgen | karma 8787 | avg karma 1.26 · | 2020-09-05 14:59:38+00:00

There is no reason not to have government, as long as there is no state and no master/slave relation.

anon291 | karma 2321 | avg karma 1.13 · | 2023-09-14 11:54:00

Except none of the safeguard of government

JAlexoid | karma 1809 | avg karma 1.1 · | 2020-11-15 06:45:53

Only the government can use force openly on you with complete impunity.

kd3 | karma 35 | avg karma 0.21 · | 2019-11-01 18:01:25

The best government is no government.

candiodari | karma 4236 | avg karma 1.05 · | 2019-02-08 18:38:27+00:00

You mean a society without a government at all ?

blored | karma 419 | avg karma 2.31 · | 2007-08-19 05:56:04+00:00

A perfect government would only concern itself with monitoring currency and prisons.

iterationx | karma 627 | avg karma 1.25 · | 2010-10-26 08:54:49

If there was no government then gangs would take over.

samstave | karma 8461 | avg karma 0.81 · | 2013-06-16 22:23:33

Minus the police state attempting to interfere into every aspect of an individuals life.

yanderekko | karma 1370 | avg karma 2.84 · | 2021-07-02 06:24:04

The government would never allow it.

dmitrygr | karma 11233 | avg karma 3.24 · | 2018-07-01 08:02:57+00:00

I prefer a government that stays out of the way, does not tell the people how to live, whom to transact with, or how. One that occupies itself solely with external security of the country. There aren't such any out there. We'll get there, eventually, I hope.

eloff | karma 14985 | avg karma 3.31 · | 2021-06-02 01:06:56+00:00

Yet a world with all freedom and no security would suck. No law, no police, no military. Jungle rules - survival of the strongest.

There's a reasonable balance to be struck. That's essentially the tradeoff we make with the state - trade some freedom for some security.

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