The problem with minarchists is that they see the symptoms but do not understand the underlying cause. The intention has always been to have a small government with limited authority, but as soon as you give a small group any authority to rule over you, there is not much stopping them from claiming total authority, as history has shown over and over again.

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How do you enforce the non aggression principle without central coordination? If you have small bands of security forces protecting small, Balkanized areas, you eventually end up in a situation where the more powerful of these groups take over the other groups, and then you end up with a centralized state yet again. Anarchy is unstable. Asked another way, how would you restore order in a place like Somalia without some form of a centralized state?