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This game gives you two concepts related to anarchy. Your goal is to think of the connection between them. This connection can be political, philosophical, artistic, personal... whatever you feel most comfortable with.
If you're stuck, try defining the concepts from a Market Anarchist perspective first.
This game is also great if you need a topic for a blog entry. Just click until you find an interesting combination to write about.
Write your answer here if you want, and I'll add it to the page :
If you have sent an entry, thank you! I will add it as soon as I get to it.
Your submissions (latest=top):
name = BulimicMind
combo = customer demand and inequality
comments = Customer demand and the notion of "equality" are phenomena on two entirely seperate, and in some sense, mutually exclusive, tracks. It is the fulfillment of the demand of the costumer - consumption - that in the end either validates or invalidates an economic system of organization, whether coercive or consensual. Inequality, of course, is merely evidence of a poorly designed system - but in no way the design's poorness. Equality in abject poverty is even more reprehensible than inequality of any sort, though they both pale in comparison to equality in prosperity. In short, inequality is just that - evidence - that the economic design in question does NOT adequately address customer demand in a world of nuclear power, ample resource, and near-perpetual-motion.
name = Peter Namtvedt
combo = taxation and the Non-Agression Principle
comments = Since taxation is the taking of a part of my wealth or income by force or threat of force, which throttles my freedom to make my own rational choices regarding the use of my resources on which my life as a human depends, taxation is a form of aggression, which is the initiation of physical harm and that violates the Non-Aggression principle.
name = Chris Khawand
combo = Utilitarianism and censorship
comments = Generally, utilitarianism refers to the belief that what is just is what provides the greatest good to the greatest number. The ends justify the means. Any argument for censorship invariably must return to the notion of a "greater good" in order to rationalize the visible costs it incurs to those who consent to it. Censorship of violent videogames, for example, argues that its interference with game developers and consumer's personal choices is justified since it keeps the influence of violence away from children.
name = Aaron Sokoloski
combo = cooperation and individualism
comments = Cooperation is only possible when individual rights are recognized. Two or more people cooperate because working together produces more valuable results than working alone. However, when the fruit of one's labor is redistributed to others forcefully as in a collectivist society, the incentive to cooperate is destroyed, and people focus instead on getting as much as possible for themselves while doing as little work as possible.
name = Andrew Greve
combo = the money supply and warfare
comments = Control of the money supply is essential for the state to gain enough resources to support a war financially. The American government, for example, took the American dollar off the gold standard as a way to make paying back debts incurring during World War I easier. Inflation is one of the greatest means of wealth transfer in most countries today.
name = Andrew Greve
combo = public education and competing value systems
comments = Public education necessarily implies value imposition. The authority figures involved in creating and administering a public education system impose their values on the students who are forced to attend schools in the system. In the absense of government monopoly on education, potential students are free to choose an educational institution which best reflects their own value system. A free market ensures that innocent children are not subjected to the strong arm of state coersion.
name = Andrew Greve
combo = the Drug War and individual rights
comments = The Drug War is an imposition of false values held by some members of society on an entire population. The right to do what one wishes with one's body is essential for survival. The Drug War limits value expression, and is therefore anti-individualist.
name = Andrew Greve
combo = foreign aid and the free market
comments = Foreign aid is when one "nation" gives money or food or something else to another "nation". This is often done ostensibly in the name of helping to boost an economy or halt a famine. However, the taxation required to gather resources given as foreign aid is disruptive to the natural process of wealth redistribution inherent in the free market. So, when "nations" give to "nations", what is really happening is one group of politicians gives to another group of politicians, or in some cases, a single dictator. The people in need of the aid are often the last to be offered a slice of the foreign aid pie. Without the presence of a state, the free market allows for competition to bid-up the price of labor.
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