Brett Cashman > There is no state at all without, inter alia, this...

January 7, 2025 at 6:46 PM  ·  Comment — Archer T. Ships replied to Brett Cashman's comment.  ·  View on Facebook  ·  Markdown source

Brett Cashman > There is no state at all without, inter alia, this prerogative to exclude. Californians can freely move to Idaho (and vice versa), and yet both states continue to exist. I don't see why the same thing can't eventually happen at a global scale. > it couldn't conceivably *remain* a minarchist libertarian state if it couldn't keep out people who didn't share its values And who gets to decide who shares my values? You? Bernie Sanders? Trump? You think they share my values? In a country with a population of 350 million, people hold many different, mutually incompatible values. I don't think a single centralized bureaucracy can even learn what those values are, let alone make coherent screening decisions based on them. In my view, we as individuals-- each acting with local knowledge of own preferences and needs--will make better screening decisions than some distant bureaucracy.