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I'm not interested in talking about my personal utopia where everything works exactly like I want.


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That's *exactly* what you want to talk about.



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No, you're obviously wrong. Read on.


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I've never heard an AC proponent bemoan the fact that statism is a tolerated viewpoint. I've heard you complain numerous times about the oppression you suffer as a result of AC posts (in the politics forum, the horror!).


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I don't know about bisonbison but I welcome the AC debate! Where else would there be an opportunity to post up links to the Three Stooges?


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You keep repeating the same thug responses. It's the real world, right? Oppression is the status quo, get over it.


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FYI, that's not what critics of "anarcho"-capitalism are saying and that's not what bisonbison wrote, as his posts are still up.

Speaking for myself, I also want a lot of things changed in this world, so I am making some effort towards that goal. The better part of that work is discussing things with people - in order for me to either verify my ideas and convince other people or to learn things from others and improve my ideas (or change 'em). It's called politics -- if I can throw in a foreign word...


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We statists do have an actual advantage over you here.


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What advantage to statists have "here"?


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Well, I for one am not a "statist" -- in the sense that I certainly do NOT believe that everything is better if done by the "state".

But what is said here is that people who oppose or criticize "anarcho"-capitalism have the advantage of living and breathing (as you do too!) in a world which is closer to their idea of how best to run a society. While ACers are obliged to debate ideas based on something that has not yet being "tested" in real life.

In that sense, ACers are obviously talking (and bisonbison is "not interested in talking") about their personal utopias. But the critics of AC are not talking abt their personal utopias; that "non-AC" world is already out there.