The point of banning it isn't that the ban works. The more people we can lock up the more cheap prison labor there will be. Also everything around maintaining prisons is private, so it will benefit them as well.

Society is preferring values of empathy that are typical of females. Paternal authority demands that the man steps in and assertively makes the distinction between them and us: "Son, those drug dealers bad" Therefore legitimizing further his position as the brave guardian of his family. Recent developments in society have corroded this 1950's ideal.

The law is also fundamentally kick ass, especially when paired with tough sentencing. There is nothing like the face off between the lawful police man and the rebellious, unscrupulous young man.

The black market is an efficient way to distribute goods and services. They have been endorsed by the likes of Milton Friedman. It also adds to their pleasure, philosophical and psychological meaning. Now who would use drugs if they were illegal? Legalization fails the ABAP-test - as baller as possible.

I am yet to see why the apple pie libertarians would see a problem with your argument. As they are educated they know the conflict between democracy and free markets, advocating for the latter for reasons of justice and/or efficiency.

I am not the one who down-voted. However there are counter-examples at least in the case of leftist anarchism, say the Spanish revolution, the Russian free zones and hunter-gatherer societies, which encompass most of human evolution.

Show me a person living in absolute poverty and I'll show you someone who's never leeched anything from any of us.

Show me a successful international corporation and I'll show you something that will suck up tax money like a war in the middle east.

... refuse to believe we will meet in the gulags.

... poison our youth with American "libertarianism".

Too bad lack of gun restrictions in a market society implies that companies who make money selling guns will advertise their product and contribute to a culture of violence which is certain to alter the way we see guns as a part of problem solution.

The US government is already lobbied to keep up military bases across the world and commit acts of aggression globally. The population isn't immune to this.

taking guns away only leaves law abiding citizens pitted against government and criminal thugs

Some man with an assault-rifle isn't going to fare against the US government. It might have been the case in the 1800's, but not nowadays.

In understanding crime it is important to remove the incentive that motivates it. Promoting guns will only reinforce the good guys-bad guys thinking that blocks understanding and progress. There always needs to be some restriction in at least how gun manufacturers are allowed to encourage the use of their product.

What a contortion of liberty, to say that ones life depending on the arbitrary will of others is freedom.

Power is A's ability to make B do something they would otherwise not have done. Every living person and legal corporation has power.

1. Oxymoron, I prefer the term apple pie libertarian.

2. Unproven claim. The free market has little to do with peoples freedom to choose in absence of authority: actual freedom, not freedom to sell yourself. I prefer the term unfettered power market.

3. What a fanatically unquestioning attitude toward economic power. The definition of ordinary people used by Friedman means everyone except the poor, as seen in Chile.

Efficiency depends on the circumstances: Feudalism was best in the early middle ages and anarchism in prehistory. China's authoritarianism seems to do very well nowadays.

Efficiency consideration doesn't produce a society that is in any way better than any other efficient society like Nazi Germany. It is even naive to assume that your proposed society will be the most efficient.

Not even Wikipedia seems to agree. Further elaboration would be necessary. If anarcho-capitalism as a way of life entails treating all persons as property to be bought, sold and rented I doubt anyone would be able to fulfill it's tenets.