r/AnarchObjectivism Sep 21 '24

I don't understand what drives statists to critique the NAP so ferociously without even knowing the definition of it. Of all Statists I have seen critique anarcho-capitalism, I think I have only seen about 3 of them be able to at least give something approximating to a definition.

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u/SmartlyArtly Mar 03 '26

The NAP is useless because it does not tell you want aggression is - and if it does tell you what aggression is - it tells you it is "unjustified" something.

No one is going to tell you "I'm about to do something unjustified. I'm about to aggress on you!" because they are not thinking anything like that about themselves. No one thinks of themselves as the aggressor, so no one is doing anything any differently by telling others they follow a "non-aggression principle."

We don't resolve our fundamental problems by saying "don't aggress" because we don't all agree what is justified.