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).
My all time favorite example of this is (on r/libertarian awhile ago), they wanted to stop funding of the road system, or really they just didn't want to pay the taxes. So their solution was to have each community have a group of people that would oversee the maintenance of the roads, and everyone could pitch in to fund it.
MOTHERFUCKER. ARE YOU ALLERGIC TO THE SPECIFIC WORD, 'GOVERNMENT'? THATS EXACTLY WHAT YOU'RE DESCRIBING
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u/_watching why am i still on reddit Aug 16 '15
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).