{"id":823,"date":"2003-03-22T01:06:59","date_gmt":"2003-03-22T09:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=823"},"modified":"2005-08-02T18:49:02","modified_gmt":"2005-08-03T02:49:02","slug":"the-law-of-the-emhumanem-jungle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=823","title":{"rendered":"the law of the <em>human<\/em> jungle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More from my archives, 1998 April 04:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n If anarcho-capitalism depends on everybody&#8217;s goodwill, so what?  If that&#8217;s a serious flaw then we&#8217;re in deep trouble, because DAILY LIFE IN ANY SYSTEM depends on everybody&#8217;s goodwill to the same degree.  Every single person in several counties is betting that I (and the rest of our neighbors) won&#8217;t steal a car tonight and go burn their house down.<\/p>\n<p>Where power is dispersed, no one person is much of a threat, and there are balances to every plausible threat.  Where power is concentrated, the opposite is true.\n <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> And from the same thread, April 10:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n We have government (in the broad sense which includes PPAs [private protection agencies], contracts, custom etc) to protect us against a TINY MINORITY of badguys.  The state, which depends for its livelihood on a public perception of its necessity, puffs itself up by exaggerating what threats exist (Saddam is going to conquer the world if we don&#8217;t get him!) and inventing new ones (pornography on the internet! protect our children!).\n <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More from my archives, 1998 April 04: If anarcho-capitalism depends on everybody&#8217;s goodwill, so what? If that&#8217;s a serious flaw then we&#8217;re in deep trouble, because DAILY LIFE IN ANY SYSTEM depends on everybody&#8217;s goodwill to the same degree. Every &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=823\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}