Just came across some amusing observations about libertarians, anarchists and other utopian visionaries in a blog post by Belle Waring. A quote that conveys the main idea:
"Now, everyone close your eyes and try to imagine a private,
profit-making rights-enforcement organization which does not resemble
the mafia, a street gang, those pesky fire-fighters/arsonists/looters
who used to provide such "services" in old New York and Tokyo, medieval
tax-farmers, or a Lendu militia. (In general, if thoughts of the
Eastern Congo intrude, I suggest waving them away with the invisible
hand and repeating "that's anarcho-capitalism" several times.) Nothing's
happening but a buzzing noise, right?
"Now try it the wishful thinking way. Just wish that we might all live
in a state of perfect liberty, free of taxation and intrusive
government, and that we should all be wealthier as well as freer. Now
wish that people should, despite that lack of any restraint on their
actions such as might be formed by policemen, functioning law courts,
the SEC, and so on, not spend all their time screwing each other in
predictable ways ranging from ordinary rape, through the selling of
fraudulent stocks in non-existent ventures, up to the wholesale dumping
of mercury in the public water supplies. (I mean, the general stock of
water from which people privately draw.) Awesome huh? But it gets
better. Now wish that everyone had a pony."
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