--- In LibertarianEnterprise@yahoogroups.com, "Zack Bass" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --- In LibertarianEnterprise@yahoogroups.com, "Dennis Lee Wilson" > dennisleewilson@ wrote: > > > > It is NOT an example of what ***WOULD*** happen in an AnarchoCapitalist > > paradise because an AnCap paradise ***would have armed citizens who > > could defend themselves*** and others (if they so chose). > > > > But the current population of Tanzania would not. The vast majority > have nothing to lose if albinos are killed, since they are not > albinos; and they have plenty to gain, since they enjoy having albino > parts with which to play witchcraft. > Even if you don't like the witchcraft motive, it is easy to imagine > that a vast majority would have plenty to gain from killing a tiny > Minority for their body parts. It turns out that, just as Type O > Blood is a Universal Blood Donor, there is a tiny population of Jews > from an area just east of Mount Ararat whose descendants tend to be > Universal Tissue Donors - their tissues lack certain antigenic > markers. Thus they can be harvested in AnCap to the great benefit of > the vast majority who will someday need organ transplants - with no > risk to the vast majority, since only a teeny Minority will be > harvested. Thus the Majority can buy far more Aggression than the > amount of Defense the Minority can afford. > > The fact that Individuals have access to weapons is irrelevant. > Aggressors too have access to the same weapons. AnCap's arguments > from Economics, as shown above, fail to protect Minorities from > Aggression. If you want to argue from Sentiment or Esthetics, as in > "many people would risk their welfare to protect a member of a > Minority", please remember the lessons of history. There are at least > as many instances of non-Economic Sentiment and Esthetics leading men > to lynch Negroes, to drag queers behind pickup trucks, to imprison > Blasphemers, and to scourge Public Sheepfuckers. No one is stepping > up to protect the albinos in Tanzania, even though they have access to > the same machetes as the killers; they want those body parts. > This reminds me of the little boy who was caught standing on the kitchen counter with his hand in the cookie jar on the third shelf up.
"What? Me taking cookies? No, never. I was just dusting off the top of the cookie jar." "Oh, the top is on the counter? Well, I was just checking to see if any dust fell inside the jar." Get a life.
