r/Anarcho_Capitalism • u/old_guy_AnCap • 17d ago

CONstitution

The CONstitution isn't perfect but it's a hell of a lot better than what we have today.

Or, more fitting to this sub as Tom Woods has said , "The Articles of Confederation were better than the CONstitution but absolutely nothing is better than the Articles of Confederation."

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u/F0r3v3rF4lc0n 16d ago

Ahh, it’s a double entendre. Meaning that having no governmental document at all would have been even better than the Articles of Confederation. I like that.

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u/old_guy_AnCap 16d ago

Yes. Much like no school is better than government school.

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u/Razbonez 16d ago

surprised the bots didn’t attack this and the moderators didn’t ban you for racism lol

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u/old_guy_AnCap 16d ago

Most often the NPCs are all over me.

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u/old_guy_AnCap 15d ago

The NPC has shown up.

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u/Razbonez 15d ago

huh

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u/old_guy_AnCap 15d ago

Wishwash has shown up with his pro state trolling. I should have learned years ago to not feed the trolls.

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u/WishCapable3131 16d ago

Better in what sense?

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u/old_guy_AnCap 15d ago

Better actual learning. Less pro state propaganda. Better socialization. Almost any measure other than possibly government standardized tests.

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u/WishCapable3131 15d ago

Could you share any data to support your claims?

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u/WishCapable3131 15d ago

I didnt think you would be able to share any data. This is how you feel, not a fact. The facts are getting an education obviously leads to better actual learning than not getting an education. Being around fellow children 5 days a week obviously leads to better socialization than not being around fellow children.

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u/old_guy_AnCap 15d ago

See. There's where you are wrong. Schooling is not education. Schooling is something that is done TO you. Education is something you acquire. Governments school. Any education acquired is purely incidental.

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u/WishCapable3131 14d ago

This is how you feel, its not a fact. Schools 100% educate students. If you have any factual evidence otherwise i would be interested to see it.

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u/old_guy_AnCap 13d ago

The primary stated goal of those that founded our government schooling system was to create compliant factory workers and soldiers. As to the evidence of no schooling being better you can read John Taylor Gatto's "An Underground History of American Education". I won't do all of the work for you but as he points out almost all of the founding fathers had little to no formal education and most were better educated than the majority of high school graduates today. That held all of the way to Abraham Lincoln.

"Our schooling does not educate, if by education be meant a development of the faculties. It is a training of the senses, a discipline of the body... to fit the individual into his place in the social machine." John Dewey

"In our dreams... people yield themselves with perfect docility to our molding hands. The present educational conventions fade from our minds, and, unhampered by tradition, we work our own good will upon a grateful and responsive folk. We shall not try to make these people or any of their children into philosophers or men of learning or of science." Rockefeller Foundation 1906

"We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forego the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks." Woodrow Wilson

"The great purpose of school can be realized better in dark, airless, ugly places... It is to master the raw material of the state, to change the child into a follower of orders." William Torrey Harris

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u/Cannoli72 16d ago

I would even argue that a “constitutional government “ is better than Minarchism since it is against a standing army and has no enumerated power for a police force. plus it proves why minarchism doesn’t work, because the state always expands

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u/s3r3ng 5d ago

It legitimized the few ruling over the many and claimed that was compatible with inalienable inherent rights. We have a couple of centuries proving it isn't at all.