Luke
25th September 2011, 18:50
Jeffrey Tucker interviews Robert Higgs, Senior Fellow in Political Economy at the Independent Institute. Recorded at the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 29 July 2011.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67eelZustMk
(RH) Government is not necessary for anything, we can do everything we without government (...)
Anarchism is most desirable moral ideal. (..) there are no perfect worlds when people are inhabiting them..
(JT) and given that worse you can do is give some people all power.
(...)
(RH) Government is dreadfully dangerous institution. It has demonstrated capacity to commit crimes on an enormous scale, including murders on the scale of scores of thousands, millions, if we credit R.J. Rummel's estimates. governments in 20th century alone killed, I think by his latest estimate, 262 millions of their own citizens, this does not count in all the people who perished in their wars. This is simply an number of people that perished as a result of their own governments actions, and very often their government's deliberate actions, taken in order to kill them. So if you say we need government to keep order, to protect life, you bear a very heavy burden of proof. It seems extraordinary unlikely to me, unlikely to the vanishing point, that without states any mayhem on that scale could be possibly carried out. I think there are crimes so vast that only nation-state with its organization and resources is capable of.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67eelZustMk
(RH) Government is not necessary for anything, we can do everything we without government (...)
Anarchism is most desirable moral ideal. (..) there are no perfect worlds when people are inhabiting them..
(JT) and given that worse you can do is give some people all power.
(...)
(RH) Government is dreadfully dangerous institution. It has demonstrated capacity to commit crimes on an enormous scale, including murders on the scale of scores of thousands, millions, if we credit R.J. Rummel's estimates. governments in 20th century alone killed, I think by his latest estimate, 262 millions of their own citizens, this does not count in all the people who perished in their wars. This is simply an number of people that perished as a result of their own governments actions, and very often their government's deliberate actions, taken in order to kill them. So if you say we need government to keep order, to protect life, you bear a very heavy burden of proof. It seems extraordinary unlikely to me, unlikely to the vanishing point, that without states any mayhem on that scale could be possibly carried out. I think there are crimes so vast that only nation-state with its organization and resources is capable of.