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From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Newsgroups: net.politics.theory
Subject: Re: (micromotives & macrobehavior)
Message-ID: <762@psivax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 30-Sep-85 12:07:53 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 30 12:07:53 1985
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References: <3689@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> <766@cybvax0.UUCP>
Reply-To: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
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In article <766@cybvax0.UUCP> mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz) writes:
>
>Quite true.  The question is, what will your system do to prevent this sort
>of occurrence?  "United we stand, divided we fall": how does libertaria
>cope with the principle of this aphorism?
>
	Very true, *especially* in military situations. It would be
very easy to get the various dfense companies in Libertaria working at
cross-purposes. Hire this one to take your side, get mis-information
to that one, have spies hire this other one to handle a non-existant
threat on the other side of the country!

>
>Organization is not free: it requires time and effort.  Succession in a rigid
>command hierarcy can be quite swift and efficient, and we can assume an
>aggressor has expended the startup effort.  How prepared will a libertarian
>society be, when there is no profit to be made from that organization while
>it is idle in peacetime?

	There is an important point here, that is that *in*
*peacetime* maintaining military preparedness is *pure* *cost* with no
real profit. People tend to be very short sighted, even about thier
own self-interest, ofhten trading immediate gain for long term harm.
I sincerely doubt that there would be more than token defnese
preparedness in a pure profit oriented Libertaria. That is why I say
that there would be a real difficulty in effectively meeting a foreign
threat.
-- 

				Sarima (Stanley Friesen)

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