{"id":756,"date":"2011-12-10T15:11:07","date_gmt":"2011-12-10T21:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/romanskaskiw.com\/blog\/?p=756"},"modified":"2023-02-15T09:32:42","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T15:32:42","slug":"the-violence-and-justice-monopoly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/romanskaskiw.com\/blog\/archives\/756","title":{"rendered":"The Violence and Justice Monopoly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This essay was heavily influenced by one of my (now-former, 2023) intellectual heroes, Hans Hermann Hoppe:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Almost all of us hold two beliefs which contradict a third near-universal belief.  The first is that a state, however else defined, is a geographic monopoly of security and justice.  One cannot appeal a ruling beyond the state, and whatever private providers of security and justice may exist, they do so in pronounced subservience to and supervision by the state.<\/p>\n<p>The second is that monopolies invariably cause high prices and low quality.  Is it so absurd to unite these two self-evident ideas and suggest that states are poor providers of security and justice?<\/p>\n<p>This, of course, rattles to its very foundation a belief most people consider unassailable: that states must invariably provide us, the gray, primitive, violent, purposeless masses, with security and justice &#8212; or else civilization itself would plunge into darkness and despair.<\/p>\n<p>(Read more from <a href=\"http:\/\/dailyanarchist.com\/2011\/12\/10\/the-violence-and-justice-monopoly\">Daily Anarchist<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This essay was heavily influenced by one of my (now-former, 2023) intellectual heroes, Hans Hermann Hoppe: Almost all of us hold two beliefs which contradict a third near-universal belief. The first is that a state, however else defined, is a geographic monopoly of security and justice. One cannot appeal a ruling beyond the state, and &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/romanskaskiw.com\/blog\/archives\/756\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/romanskaskiw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/romanskaskiw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/romanskaskiw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/romanskaskiw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/romanskaskiw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=756"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/romanskaskiw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1381,"href":"http:\/\/romanskaskiw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions\/1381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/romanskaskiw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/romanskaskiw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/romanskaskiw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}