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Comment author: [deleted] 13 January 2013 01:03:09PM *  5 points [-]

De facto states do not have monopoly on violence. Also de jure private security firms do have some room for violence.

Also there is the minor issues of Government being this huge amorphous blob, that agents and institutions should have access to violence if and only if they belong to this strange set doesn't seem like necessarily something that helps to prevent tyrannies and chaos.

Also choosing between many small tyrannies and one big one I see good pro-liberty arguments for the former.

Comment author: Decius 13 January 2013 11:48:23PM 1 point [-]

De jure security firms are specifically licensed for the violence that they do.