Comments on: UPDATED: Self-Defense Honored In Egypt (Reader Horrified By Hoppe)

By: Contemplationist

Contemplationist — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 15:26:16 +0000

Where did I say I was horrified? I admire Hoppe. I was just saying that anyone publishing after Anarchy State and Utopia cannot ignore Nozick’s arguments against private production of defense, that’s all.

By: Contemplationist

Contemplationist — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 23:01:12 +0000

I’m shocked! I searched the entire Hoppe treatise on defense for the word “Nozick” and 0 results were found! Anyone grappling with this question must wrestle with and defeat Nozick’s brilliant arguments in Anarchy, State and Utopia.

By: irongalt

irongalt — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 20:37:48 +0000

"There is almost nothing more immoral and unnatural than a liberal male." - quite true. Thanks for the link to the article on defense...what an excellent treatise. Further, (non-neutered) men have an innate drive to protect family, friends, and even strangers. Any aggressor would instantly be outnumbered and out gunned. What a near paradise the "free territories" would be!

By: Difster

Difster — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 20:24:51 +0000

It sounds like the people of Mexico could take a lesson from the Egyptians. They are afraid of the police and even more afraid of the narcos. They’ve lost control of many neighborhoods. They are wholly incapable of defending themselves because they have succumbed to the idea that regular citizens should not have guns. Thus, they are at the mercy of the criminals (including the ones with badges).

By: Robert Glisson

Robert Glisson — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 18:12:25 +0000

The Egyptians have been hiring their own security forces for years to stop the theft by the police and police supported gangs. “http://www.freedominourtime.blogspot.com/” According to some of the articles written by William Grigg of Pro Libertate,(Too many articles about criminal police in the US to list here, check his archives) the US businesses need to start hiring “protection racketeers’ to protect them from ‘police protection.’

By: Ingemar

Ingemar — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 08:44:05 +0000

I told my godfather the other day that the best way to weather a societal collapse/zombie apocalypse/whatever is to have a working network of people (most likely relatives and close friends) agree to share the responsibility of defending each others’ turf, women and children–BEFORE the collapse happens.

Many fantasy disaster scenarios imagine one crazed lunatic standing alone with his rifle and ginormous cache of ammo and some emergency supplies. That’s fine, he may last a few days, but in the end he’s one man and no one has his back. Plus, if a team takes him out they can simply loot his munitions.