How can we make it unprofitable to be a violent thug? That is the question that the correct answer to will solve all of our problems.
Consider the burglar who steals items from people's houses.
We can make it unprofitable to be a burglar by improving the security of our houses. To put the burglars out of business doesn't require that everyone burgler-proofs their houses; it just requires that enough people burgler-proof their houses that it becomes uneconomic to be a burglar.
It becomes unprofitable to burgle the burglar-proofed houses -- the rest are fine. Burglars aren't violent anyway -- otherwise they'd be *robbers*
Alternatively, we can make it unprofitable to be a burglar by making it relatively more profitable for the burglar to do something else. A government that creates high levels of unemployment will make it relatively more profitable for burglars than than a government that allows full employment.
So already there's more than one way towards a solution.
It's the same with the violent thugs. There are many paths towards a solution, including these:
1. Remove the profit. The agorist movement aims to do this by moving all economic transactions down to the grassroots where they are unseen by the violent thugs, and therefore out of reach.
After the economic transactions are completed, i assume there's still "stuff" left -- things like laptops & ipads. Those are the things commonly stolen & sold at the grassroot level.
2. Make it more profitable for the violent thugs to cease their thuggery. For example, a small country might find profit in selling "freedom passports" that would allow people to live without institutionalised thuggery in part of that country. A carribean island selling freedom passports would do very well financially, I think.
Caribbean islands fare much better by stamping tourist passports & making sure they don't stick around too long. Without implicit thuggery enterprising thugs would come & thug up the place.
3. Remove the violent thugs from positions of violence. I'm a pacifist, so this path is not for me. But others will do it anyway, as we have seen recently in several Middle East countries. Of course, they have replaced the removed violent thugs by other violent thugs, but perhaps there's a way to "piggyback" on the removals perpetrated by others, whilst avoiding the new thugs. I haven't thought this one through fully, but it's likely in the future that the young generation will rebel against the debts incurred in their name by the current thugs.
Thugs can only be removed by thuggier thugs. And so on and so on and so on.
4. Remove oneself from the violence. Seasteading is the obvious path forwards here. Maybe seasteads will be attacked by the violent thugs, but somehow I doubt it. Most violent thugs are too busy with their own "citizens".
Even Sealand, arguably the least desirable property in the world, was attacked & recaptured only by out-thugging the thugs. And then there's ... Somalia!
5. Protect oneself from the violent thugs. Structure ones life to minimise the problems that the thugs can cause. Fly beneath the radar.
You're not suggesting that entire communities *hide,* are you?
