[lsbskins1]

Quote by: grandpa Unless I'm missing something, not every dispute involves murder or rape, though my point remains correct regarding those issues. We don't need a coercive, state bureaucracy to deal with cases of rape and murder. There is a such thing as self-responsibility and self-defense, is there not? or how about defending your neighbor if he/she is attacked? Do we need some elite state bureaucracy to do these things? Do we need the state to giev us support networks, or could we do this of our own initiative? In fact, do we even need revenge to occur in state form? I fail to see why I should relegate responsibilities to other people. I can only adequately represent my own interests. I need no High Priests of any kind. Grandpa h.

I would also add that there is such a thing as interest blinded by self. We need government because we need a mechanism to remove self interest from the process. If individuals were the sole arbitors of justice, the man who stole a bag of potato chips from a sociopath would find himself dead on the side of the road. Hardly an example of justice. Your system ignores the fact that it is next to impossible to be objective when your own interests are involved. Thanks, but no thanks.