'so your saying private corporations running police departments is better? LOL their goal is profit...good luck with anarchy'
Well at least you are implying that governmental police do not actually care about profit/loss incentive. Tell me this. Are goods and services better when rational economic calculation [ ie. price system with a desire for profit/loss ] or when it is just given out without any regard as to how much it will cost in a system where the customers are forever tied under it?
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Plenty of corruption in the private sector as well as government, what makes you think a private police/fire/military would follow good morals because in anarchy there are no rules or laws, companies could just put their cops on the street and kill people without consequence of jail or law.'
Blueline makes a good point. You seem to labor under the premise that anarchy is just some smash and grab Hobbesian state of nature. Why can't there be rules? Why can't there be laws? How knowledgeable are you concerning anarchy? Or at least what is know as 'anarcho-capitalism'? The definition of the word anarchy in the political sense means no rulers. Who is a ruler? One who takes up the mantle of coercion and dictates to others how they should live their lives. Anarchy does not mean there can't be voluntary cooperation. Anarchy doesn't mean there can't be a system of basic natural rights.
'how would you buy your toothbrush if everything was left up to anarchy? stores would be ransacked by thugs because no laws, no cops who follow laws, no jail...no punishment, just lawlessness....'
Again you assume that without a monopoly on the system of law in a given territory [ ie the State ], that everything will devolve into chaos and a Hobbesian state of nature.
'how would money work in anarchy? who prints it, gives its value? congress needs to...but with no congress there wouldn't even be cash, how do you purchase goods?'
I find it strange that you say only congress can create and give value to money, then say someone can be a counterfeit and cheat people. First you have to realize how money evolves, money being a medium of exchange. Now under a barter system [ the trading of one good for another directly ] you have two issues which present themselves. One being a problem of indivisability which means say I want to sell a tractor. Well would have to actually break apart the tractor to meet my wants of say butter or bread. That is not an effective means of trade. Large, capital items that are complex cannot be utilized in a barter system. Another problem is double concidience of wants which means say I want to buy a hula-hoop and I'm a shoe maker. Well under barter I would have to find a shoe wanting hula hoop maker. What are the chances of that? Very slim. So what people instinctively do is indirect exchange. Instead of finding a shoe making hula hoop wanter, I instead trade my shoes for a commodity that everyone, or at least a great deal of people desire and I then trade that good for a hula hoop. This is a medium of exchange, this is what money is. Money in the past has been salt, cattle, tobacco, cigarettes [ in WWII POW camps ], fish hooks, however the best 'money' is one that has high divisibility, high per unit value and high surviviability. The best money time and time again is precious metals because they can be broken down to a high degree, have a high value and takes a good deal to destroy them through age. It is theoritically impossible for government to declare what is and isn't money as well as trying to engage in some kind of monetary social compact. No money in the history of the world has arisen in such a manner. Imagine the following scenario: You have never heard of money, someone says to you "Look at these flat rocks, do you not see the value in them? I will give you these flat rocks if you give me grain and I promise to you that everyone will accept these rocks in your trade" a rational individual would clearly see the absurdity of such a claim if they have never experienced money transaction.
'Also, without regulations in workplaces, bosses could impose unhealthy working conditions, overwork...underpay, or not even pay at all....'
I ran into this argument a great deal with socialist thinkers. You presume to think that without the government we would all be crawling around in the mud looking at our supposed capitalist overlords who 'force' us into the workplace. It is a rather delusional outlook.
'teachers could kill students, heck...no kid would even show up to school out of the chaos everywhere...'
Kids kill their teachers today. At least under an anarchist system, kids who don't want to be in school are not forced to go into it. And if a school experiences a high level of crime, then why can they not hire protection? Security to partrol the halls?
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society would just cease to function, than some 'leader' such as a hitler, would try to seize power and install a government monarchy or oligarchy.
Well looks like Godwin's law strikes again. Why do you presume to think that society will some how fall apart because government is not around? Perhaps I am thinking of someone else who is talking but don't you want the full realization of liberty? You want to give liberty to the people yet here you are saying 'Oh well we can't give them the whole of liberty because...well they will just some how go crazy!' Who are you to arbitrarily define what is acceptable liberty? The difference between what you are saying and what someone who wants total government regulation and oppression is not a difference of kind but a difference in degree.
Perhaps this will help to better inform you over the debate between Anarchism and Minarchism [ Limited Government ] It is a lecture by Roderick Long, a philosopher with the Ludwig von Mises Institute and it involves commonly held objections that you seem to be presenting.
An Informal Talk on Anarchism and Ten Objections
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