Originally Posted by
Nockian
Government is a broad term. However, even when Government is not delimited to the specific role of defence of individual rights, it’s still superior to having no Government at all-excluding dictatorships which effectively have no form of individual rights. In the same sense that some degree of capitalism is superior to having complete collectivism. Some freedom then, being better than no freedom.
In an anarchic society can individual rights exist and be protected ? Can people be said to be free - in this sense ‘free’ means from freedom from the initiation of force by who ever takes control ? Therefore can property rights - the basis for capitalism exist under such conditions ?
In contrast, we know exactly what a Government is and it’s effectiveness in even the most corrupted version of rights protection. Today’s Western Government is trending towards authoritarianism, but it has a long way to go as yet. Do we blame ‘Government’ for that corruption and in a knee jerk reaction revert to centuries of chaos as the solution ? That appears to me to be something we shouldn’t risk.