This sounds to me like voluntarism or anarcho-capitalism. Which is ethically and morally sound, but a pretty hard sell in todays world of liberal-democracies. The idea of the state or The Government as an entity is, in my opinion, entirely incompatible with the idea of, as you put it:
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If they choose not to behave as you want, then there is no punishment, and you accept their right to decline indulging you.
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I say this because outside the existence and interferences of the state in the free market, this is mostly how economics works. Great post.
Thank you for the comment. Yes, truly, state governance works solely on negative economics, because we assume there is no other way to achieve social order (while absolute social order is impossible, unless we're talking about a cemetery). Maybe negative economics is the only way for governance, but what if it's not? The question has more value than any answer :)
This sounds to me like voluntarism or anarcho-capitalism. Which is ethically and morally sound, but a pretty hard sell in todays world of liberal-democracies. The idea of the state or The Government as an entity is, in my opinion, entirely incompatible with the idea of, as you put it:
```
If they choose not to behave as you want, then there is no punishment, and you accept their right to decline indulging you.
```
I say this because outside the existence and interferences of the state in the free market, this is mostly how economics works. Great post.
Thank you for the comment. Yes, truly, state governance works solely on negative economics, because we assume there is no other way to achieve social order (while absolute social order is impossible, unless we're talking about a cemetery). Maybe negative economics is the only way for governance, but what if it's not? The question has more value than any answer :)