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New Logical Fallacy: Argument from the Brochure

New Logical Fallacy: Argument from the Brochure

All the bad things people predict will happen in an ancap world are happening NOW

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Christopher Cook
Jun 11, 2024
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One of the many tactics used in defense of the state (or out of fear of anarcho-libertarian ideas) is

  1. Asserting that in the absence of the state’s authority, all sorts of bad things will happen, while simultaneously

  2. Ignoring the fact that all those bad things happen with state authority.

There will be crime!
There is crime now. Lots of it.

There will be cor…

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