What if one of our Western governments were to privatise itself? Everyone would be allowed to become free of that government and would be able to set up their own government.If you opted out of the government you would no longer be taxed or policed by it

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Anonymous 02/28/16 (Sun) 04:45:08 No.18431

What if one of our Western governments were to privatise itself? Everyone would be allowed to become free of that government and would be able to set up their own government.

If you opted out of the government you would no longer be taxed or policed by it, but you would have to relinquish any of your dependencies on it.

Anonymous 02/28/16 (Sun) 04:55:15 No.18432

>would be allowed to set up their own government

So long as an individual must explicitly grant their consent to be ruled by the new government for it to have any authority over them, I'm okay with this. Don't expect me to sign on.

Anonymous 02/28/16 (Sun) 06:09:31 No.18438

>>18432

But wouldn't you agree that accountable, competing, private governments would be incredibly efficient and beneficial? Why wouldn't you join one?

Anonymous 02/28/16 (Sun) 10:54:39 No.18445

Logically though, wouldn't government privatization be quite different from being free of government? Like giving people share ownership in government or just selling the government to Google or something?

I personally would not give up my dependency on government. I like being a parasite and part of the New World Order.

Anonymous 02/28/16 (Sun) 10:59:38 No.18446

>>18438

It would be better than the current system, sure, but I the libertarian critique of government isn't solely based on ethics, it's also based on pragmatism. Libertarians as a general rule think government isn't only unethical, but inefficient.

Anonymous 02/28/16 (Sun) 11:56:11 No.18448

>>18445

Well, the government would no longer be able to force people to cooperate with them. Of course it is more complicated in practice, but the theory is simply that governments would be voluntary. A government would not be allowed to initiate force against individuals unless those individuals voluntarily joined that government. Now, I don't know what people would actually do if this did happen, but there would at least be some collectivization. What I'm proposing is actually not different from regular anarchism/anarcho-capitalism, in this scenario we would still be in a statist society, but with voluntarism introduced, governments would have to compete and provide better governance to continue existing.