A few dissenters are executed or discredited. A wrench in the gears, if you will. Our government would be drastically smaller than it presently is, if not completely non-existent in its current form, merely because many people wished it so. So, like magic, the government grows and grows to meet the demands of the politically and economically dense majority. And even if my ideas don t instantly change the world in the way I want, I subscribe to Murray Rothbard s belief that even little things, for instance, this article, do their part to push the pool of ideas in the right direction.
Every little push helps.
But my anarchocapitalist purity aside, I think I would be thrilled to wake up one morning and live in a laissez-faire republic. I could live out the rest of my life completely content that unless I stole from or killed someone, I was pretty much never going to have contact with the State. Some states and counties and even cities and maybe streets would break off into their own political or community-based entities, some with larger government than others, and some with no government. And no piece which mentions the delegitimization of government on LRC is complete without a Gladiator mention. I just saw the movie for the first time, in a re-release at the theater.