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Mar 20, 2023Liked by Peter R. Quiñones

Many crimes inflicted upon society today would have been dealt with by instant punishment less than 100 years ago. It should be so again.

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Mar 20, 2023·edited Mar 20, 2023Liked by Peter R. Quiñones

"If you’ve ever encountered one of these anarchists/voluntaryists, (again, I used to be one of them), you were most likely left dumbfounded and unable to forget it."

Oh man isn't this the truth, when I used to engage with these people I constantly found myself thinking "Man this person is absolutely retarded." as they said more and more blatantly unworkable for solutions, or solutions that far outstripped the problem in how many issues it would cause. But the problem is they very much believe they arn't retarded, not only are they not retarded in their minds but they are actually exceptionally smart, so smart in fact they see how these things could work when all these small minded authoritarians are stuck in their backwards unenlightened thoughts.

For reference my views probably fall somewhere between Pat Buchanan and T777, but I don't pretend I have a solution for everything, but I do know if I had one quite a few people would have to be forced to go along with it.

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yup

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Mar 20, 2023Liked by Peter R. Quiñones

I'm always a little baffled by the "everything should just be private" crews inability to project their basic solutions out to their most likely/common end point.

Whether a court or police force (or whatever other governance institution) they happen to be talking about fixing all it's ills by making it "private" rather than government controlled would still end up descending into the problems that mire the society surrounding it because it is still men that would run these institutions and these men are still subject to the same trappings, temptations, and corruptions that any other man in a given society is whether it be public or private.

So ok great, my local police force is made into a private force. It's likely that my community will still be required, or at least strong encouraged, to financially fund them through some type of tax otherwise the issues we all hate with things like seat belt tickets as a means to financial gain for the departments we have now would probably only become worse (I mean isn't it just basic incentives?), and if I refused to participate in funding then does that mean since the force is private they just choose not to come to my aid when I call because I didn't pay? And what if the guys on the force are all a bunch of fools or maniacal jerks? Then it's the same problem anyway, it's just better because it's private now?

I think Marcus is onto something with his statement. People (criminals, government employees/officials, cops, etc) need to face consequences and punishment for their actions again.

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Mar 21, 2023Liked by Peter R. Quiñones

Really like that message at the end.

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