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The Case Against Anarcho-Capitalism

 Anarcho-Capitalism is a political ideology that falls under the category of libertarianism . I’ll state now that I’m against this idea and I want to do my best to not build a straw man. I want to accurately describe the ideology, which I’m going to do now. A libertarian society is one with a government that is in charge of protecting rights and that’s the only role. The government does this is through a legislative branch, an executive branch, and judicial branch. This means laws that are designed to protect individual rights, police and military to protect these rights from violators, and a courts to prosecute those that violate rights. This society has retaliatory force (ie: the force used to protect rights) held in a monopoly by the government (aside from immediate self defense). The anarcho-capitalist society is the same as the libertarian society, but the big difference is that the operations of government (police, courts, laws) become market players. Putting it simply, the m...