The Incomplete Cynic

Minarchy vs Anarchy

laliberty:

For Minarchists and Classical Liberals the leap from Small Government to No Government can be a leap too far. They like what we have — that is, Government — but want less of it. They justify the coercion of taxation as being utilitarian and what must be paid to have a fair and safe society. Minarchists like Democracy. They may even support Conscription in some circumstances.

Anarcho-Capitalists essentially take the ethical position, believing that Taxation is Theft at any level, and that Government Coercion (in any form) is Slavery. AC’s take the moral and ethical position in regard to Self Ownership, that a person owns his life and the justly acquired products of that life, and that no individual or group has the right to infringe on that life, that Self Ownership. AC’s typically distrust Democracy as being just another form of coercion — but by The Majority.

In essence Minarchists take the Utilitarian road, while Anarchists take the Ethical and Moral road.

See also The Minarchist Case for Anarchism.

The major problem I have is the assertion that Anarcho-Capitalists take the ethical position, and the Ethical and Moral road. There are other ethical positions, other people taking this road, with different ideas.