Originally posted by: Dissipate
I have. I grew up on that stuff. I have taken courses in economics, political science and political philosophy. Additionally, I grew up in a right wing Christian conservative family. Instead of trusting all the 'experts' I looked at my own life and realized that the system I live under really sucks, in spite of all the theory saying that it is great. Incentives have been perverted and people are now beyond delusional. I'm a political skeptic, and have taken nothing for granted, including the 'sage' advice of my parents.
In the interest of time I offer you two free book downloads which has more information:
Everyday Anarchy
Practical Anarchy
Well I skimmed through that book to see the part on violence and society (effectively the police powers thing). This book is hilarious. Anyone who has spent any time watching the news from say... Iraq for the last 5 years has seen the effects of anarchy and people taking their self defense and law enforcement into their own hands. Guess what: the result wasn't a reduction in violence there. The whole book appears to be based around making broad conclusions based entirely on theory without even a casual nod to objective evidence to the contrary.
Shocking.
EDIT: Also, they say that the solution to violent crime is to pay money to the person the crime was perpetrated against. Awesome. The author says that a woman who is raped would rather be paid a lot of money by her rapist than to see him jailed so he can't rape her again. This was obviously written by a man who has never known a woman who has been raped.
