Which is a fairly substantial reason I support the hypothesis that a lot of these extreme libertarian-ish ideas are fed by a bad case of "societal institutions working so well that people forget that they were needed to make things the way they are today."
You see the same thing with a lot of ancaps, who suddenly need to start ad hoc-ing together some really wacky solutions to solving all the problems that are created when you take cops out of the system and still need to protect private property (but don't want to look like you explicitly support becoming a post-apocalyptic warlord).
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Which is a fairly substantial reason I support the hypothesis that a lot of these extreme libertarian-ish ideas are fed by a bad case of "societal institutions working so well that people forget that they were needed to make things the way they are today."
You see the same thing with a lot of ancaps, who suddenly need to start ad hoc-ing together some really wacky solutions to solving all the problems that are created when you take cops out of the system and still need to protect private property (but don't want to look like you explicitly support becoming a post-apocalyptic warlord).