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> This isn't borne out, though, by actual experience. Yes, actually, the fact that, in the absence of a state (and, in fact, even in the presence of a de jure state but the absence of an effective state), people are free to claim whatever, but their ability to enforce a claim is dependent on their ability to muster force to press it is well established by experience. > Plenty of economic goods are not secured by codified property rights, defined and enforced from above. I don't disagree with that, but its not relevant to anything I said. > Communities are able to self-organize to define a reasonable set of behavioral norms. Again, I don't disagree (in fact, that's what a democratic state is.) > Local knowledge can be leveraged to generate better outcomes, and locality allows different communities to experiment with what actually works best, making the system as a whole more fault tolerant. And, yet again, I don't necessarily disagree with that in general (though I do think it is an overgeneralization), and, again, it doesn't contradict anything I said. > |