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Here's part of an essay I found on libertarianism and the roll of the federal government:


The name they usually give their philosophy is "voluntaryism." They have an obsession with doing everything voluntarily, and they claim, a "compulsory" government, even if a freedom-loving one, forces itself, its police, its courts, and its military unto people - hence is wrong.





The fundamental philosphy is this: you are not truly 'free' unless you can be your own little government, with your own police force, your own military - and with laws, written by yourself. True freedom, they say, is being able to make your 'own decision' over all matters in your life, including being able to choose what would be your own privatized government.






Let's cut through all the utopian images and ideological rationalizations put forth by anarcho-capitalists of how anarchism might work and examine, fundamentally, how anarchism would work. Keep in mind their fundamental philosophy which is that private individuals can be their own government with their own police, courts, and military.




To visualize an anarcho-capitalist society, drawn out in full, naked form, imagine houses lined up with nukes, electric fences warding off intruders, and attack dogs - fully ready to take justice into their own hands for their owners.




For an effect of what justice would be like, imagine a specific place where there is no government enforcing justice - on the highway. A person, on the highway, who feels he has been unjustly hurt by another will often take justice into his own hands. If someone "cuts off" another person, the person "cut off" will often do anything to punish the other person up to and including killing the other person (as has been done before).




No matter how an anarchist rationalizes his idea of what anarchism might be like, what anarchism would be like is one set of thugs (what they would call "protection agencies") versus another set of thugs. Who would determine what is right and wrong? Whoever had the biggest guns.



Anarcho-capitalism, boiled down, would operate much in the same way that the black market operates today - where men do hire their own "protection agencies" (their own thugs) and do indeed take justice into their own hands.



The reason to reject this philosophy is this: this is not how man should live.


So for those of you that have questions as to why our government is necessary you can go here to read the rest of the article.