The primary reason, in my view, people suspect Voluntaryists such as myself as being naive individuals who favor chaos is twofold:
Voluntaryists are antithetical to state police and laws.
Voluntaryists are antithetical to taxation (legalized extortion/theft).
Are Voluntaryists, then, against order and funding of services? The logical error made by the assumptive party is apparent. As Frederic Bastiat lays it out:
Get it? We as Voluntaryists/Anarcho-Capitalists/market anarchists are not opposed to order or to funding things! One more time, for those in the back:
WE. AS. VOLUNTARYISTS. ARE. NOT. OPPOSED. TO. ORDER. OR. FUNDING. THINGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We are opposed to "order" and "funding" being forced, non-consensually, upon non-violent individuals.
FORCING A NON-VIOLENT INDIVIDUAL TO DO OR PAY FOR SOMETHING IS ALWAYS WRONG.
If a private security agency comes to your door and says "Hey! We will protect you and your property everyday for X price!" and you say "No, thanks," that should be the end of it, right?
If Domino's Pizza says "Hey! We will deliver one pizza to your house every night for X price, just sign here!" and you say "No, thanks," that should be the end of it, right?
What if in both of these cases you were forced to subscribe to the service offered under threat of jail time or other physical punishment? That would be absurd, right? Well, welcome to taxation and government policing. You have no choice but to pay for the state's "service." And no choice but to fund any and everything they tell you to, up to and including the murder of children overseas.
As it stands now, you have to pay.
THAT IS, UNLESS YOU WANT TO BE KIDNAPPED, PUT IN A CAGE FOR PEOPLE, OR KILLED.
I am forced to pay for bombs that will be dropped on families and individuals I have never met in the Middle East. I am forced to pay for state protection agents (the police) who often harm me and have virtual legal immunity when caught in wrongdoing. This is absurd, isn't it?
Absurd and impractical.
Not only is the current model immoral, it is also dangerously impractical. Without a free market of individual, voluntary, and consensual actors, things like accurate price calculation, efficient and accurate measure of supply and demand, and natural market consequences and rewards for various market actions--both negative and positive, beneficial and detrimental--simply cannot happen. This ultimately results in starvation, violence, and extreme social unrest, as we see happening now in the "progressive," "Socialist miracle" of Venezuela.
The reason being that a small group of market-disconnected individuals (government) can never accurately predict and determine the individual wants, needs, desires, and potential market actions of billions of other individual human beings/market actors. This should really go without saying.
The Voluntaryist Solution.
In a nutshell privatize everything. Voluntaryists are not opposed to police or order, but non-consensual, violent "order." The same as any sane person is opposed to this type of forced "order" in any other enterprise or endeavor. It is morally illegitimate.
It is very simple. What is sex without consent? Yes, that's right, rape. What is taking someone's money without consent? Yes, that's right, stealing. Then what makes taxation (taking money under threat of force) not theft? That's right! IMAGINATION....!
Here are a few excellent video resources that go into more depth regarding how private law society can function.
Thanks for reading! I believe all moral human interaction is voluntary and consensual, don't you?
~KafkA
Graham Smith is a Voluntaryist activist, creator, and peaceful parent residing in Niigata City, Japan. Graham runs the "Voluntary Japan" online initiative with a presence here on Steem, as well as Facebook and Twitter. (Hit me up so I can stop talking about myself in the third person!)
