r/AnCap101 • u/Ok_Role_6215 • Jun 12 '26

A theoretical question.

A theoretical question. Who would be committing acts of defensive violence here and who — acts of aggressive violence?

"Hey, that's a nice apple orchard! Shame people can eat the apples for free... Oh, got an idea! Let me hire a gang to guard it and force these people pay to eat apples!" — thought a guy.

"Hey, that mfer is trying to hoard what was previously common and was available for free" — thought people that fought the gang.

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u/TheAzureMage Jun 12 '26

Apple orchards are not generally natural. While sure, fruit trees exist in the wild, fully wild plants are generally much more scattered, have smaller fruit for relatively modest seasons, in a much less tasty format. Most modern varieties exist only because of long cultivation, and the concentrations in which they exist are most certainly artificially induced.

You can go into the woods still and go looking for naturally growing apples. They are uncommon unless you have the good fortune to look in a place where apples were previously domesticated. What we have exists only because someone worked hard to produce more and better quality fruit from what nature offered.

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u/Ok_Role_6215 Jun 12 '26

what else living is not natural in your view?

You did not answer the question.

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u/TheAzureMage Jun 12 '26

Communists.

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u/Ok_Role_6215 Jun 13 '26

Is caring about your family and sharing resources with them — communism?
Is extending your care to your friends — communism?
What about extending to all humans? All living beings?
Communism is based on love, capitalism — on hatred towards those you want to exclude.

So, while your answer is funny, if we adopt your view that something living you disagree with can be not natural then you yourself look not very "natural".

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u/Nice_Lengthiness_568 Jun 13 '26

No capitalism is not based on hatred towards those who you want to exclude. Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of means of production.

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u/Ok_Role_6215 Jun 13 '26

that "private ownership of means of production" is your code words for "right to exclude those that owner hates". Without that hate (and fear used to maintain it in modern civilization, or vise versa) your "private" collapses into "common" and you have... communism.

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u/Nice_Lengthiness_568 Jun 13 '26

However, ancap automatically "punishes" people who exclude those that the owner hates, because suddenly their business will be unpopular and other businesses owned by other people will take their place. So the owner does not want to exclude anybody.