Debate: Free-Market Police: Better or Worse?
Side: Much, much worse...

Would you pay for a half-ass police agency? Neither would anyone else. If cutting corners means cutting customers, then you can rest assured that the only companies able to remain competitive on the market will be the ones that provide the best services. ;)I already explained how this happens. To use a familiar example, take broadband providers like Comcast. They provide a service that is good initially and competitive but after they crush their immediate competition they start to interfere in their customers' affairs with packet poisoning. Another example is how the providers stay competitive by inflating their available broadband, and penalise their customers by having a quota, and demanding that net neutrality be revoked.You're ignoring my point. You can get away with a lot more if your company is the only one of its kind (monopoly). And you can get away with a hell of a lot more if your monopoly is coercive... like the ones we have now. =/All free market companies endeavour for monopoly.Yeah, I'm not concerned with how sucky a business is while not on a free market. Those are all market examples. Back when they were purely free market, there were NO employee benefits, and food could be laden with poison (and was in some cases, remember the arsenic-laden candies a couple centuries ago?).If you would be willing to pay a company that does background checks over a company that doesn't, then that's where the money would go. You don't have that option under a coercive monopoly. If a monopolized industry offers background checks, it is only because of crushing demand. If there's such crushing demand for background checks then companies will offer them under a free market as well... since that's what people want.People will buy what is affordable. This is why for example they buy cable when the employees are overworked and over-managed. Guess they don't want to pay 20$ a month more to improve this.You're going to have to do better than this. Show me an example of a free-market insurance agency being "abusive".Are you in the USA?All of them. Ranging from denial of claims to skyrocketing premiums when you actually use your insurance, to being dropped because you have one pet too many.You can only raise an army with a tax base. Customers aren't enough because customers tend to not pay companies that start to militarize. Look at Microsoft for an example of how wealthy a company can become, or an oil company. What if the police force is acquired by an oil company? Now you have a wealthy, strong force that can stand up to government.Really? Because the only free-market I can think of in recent history was Somalia... and crime went waaaaaaaaaay down in that time.You're joking, right? Or are you that ignorant?You can't live in Mogadishu safely, guns are fired frequently, warlords and militant factions are competing for power and land. Somalia is like a war zone, constant fighting between Islamists, Christians, and UN backed government.It's already been proven that things work better without a state. This isn't a matter of arguing logic anymore, but rather a matter of getting the facts out and talked about.You really are ignorant.Anarchy is a power vacuum. In small groups of people this leads to tribalism. In large, city-like populations you have tribes fighting each other, gang violence in other words. Then you have factions, which form based on race, ethnicity, religion, political beliefs, etc. They fight violently. Eventually you get a government again, that arises from the bloodshed.Anarchy cannot work because it is by nature ephemeral. You also don't want to live in that ephemeral stage because the mortality rates are high.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Courts_Union http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transitional_Federal_Government http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeerhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mogadishu#Modern_history Free markets existed in the United States and Britain, there was severe social inequality and workers' rights were nonexistent. In developing nations across the world there are free markets, and what we see are sweatshops and child labour.