Reply To: General thought on old coal mines.

[Rezwan]

Brian H wrote: “People sleep peaceably in their beds at night because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”

I’m surprised. You’re advocating outsourcing the violence to some rough and ready men standing around outside. Is this a privatized army? I would have pegged you for someone who advocated each person have their own means of protection right there by the bed.

[Added 7/26: Not that I’m not turned on by the idea of some rough men standing ready to do violence on my behalf. Who doesn’t romanticize heroic, primal, capable figures? It’s good to know there are such people. What bothers me is civilians making irresponsible statements like war is the natural state and terrible policy decisions which trigger events which require the rough men to go and clean up after them. That’s where the failure is.]