07-14-2008, 03:45 AM
Yes, but there are certain things that are best done collectively, by spreading the burdens and the benefits around. One of these is police protection. We can't move to a system where it is every man for himself. We need a cultural commitment to reducing crime first by condemning it strongly as a society (intense social pressure) and secondly by having lots of police and making their priority crimes against people and property, and not crimes perpetrated by drug runners and addicts.
You can't reduce larceny with a gun. You go to the beach, they break in your house and they steal your gun, too.
You can't reduce larceny with a gun. You go to the beach, they break in your house and they steal your gun, too.