No. Mafia is an organization. You’d just be shot by the first person from whom you tried to steal.
But I thought he had a right to life. You saying you’d violate his right to life if he tried take your ipod?
Others don’t. You protect yourself, or you hire others for protection - that is, you buy protection. In either case, it is your individual responsibility to arrange for protecting your rights.
Unless they were expecting Big Daddy government to take care of their stuff. Assuming they could afford to pay the police and courts, that is.
And this is different from anarchy how?
I urge you to read that link. It explains the quasi-libertarianism that Terr seems to be promoting here.
By violating my right he is giving up his right. As I said before, only you yourself can give up your rights. That’s what he’d be doing.
Just like the Mafia.
No. Mafia is an organization. You’d just be shot by the first person from whom you tried to steal.
So what’s the difference between that and anarchy?
I don’t need to. I used to think exactly the same way Terr does. I literally used these exact same arguments.
ETA: I did read the link, I don’t need to read the book.
I hear the Mafia does that too. True?
He never signed a contract. Are you saying there’s situations with implied consent to waive rights?
Do property rights trump the right to life itself? Are your possessions actually more valuable than the life of a fellow human being?
Anarchy is absence of government. Government would exist. It would provide services that people would buy. It would not provide services that people didn’t buy. It would not force its services on people who didn’t want them.
Property right derives from right to life. When my rights are violated, the violator gives up his rights.
That is not a government, its a cafeteria.
So government wouldn’t actually be protecting these inalienable rights? If I’m poor and have no family, someone could kill me and suffer no consequences since no one would be willing or able to pay the police and courts to bring my murderer to justice?
Mafia is an organization. You’d be shot by an individual for trying to steal from him.
So, it’s a lot like the Mafia?
In theory, yes. In practice, for the very few cases like that, whatever governmental organizations exist would hunt you down and make you pay pro bono - because if they allowed you to continue, you would pose a danger to their subscribers.