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Nine-year-old Detroit girl mauled to death by three pit bulls
The real world is not just made up of global geo-politics and elite 'pedophiles'. Perhaps Agorism, and many other ism's, are appealing when we consider the big picture but one might legitimately ask 'what happens when you get right down to the human level?'. Surely, if there were no State, there would be nothing to prevent this kind of tragedy from occurring far more frequently? The owner of these dogs could laugh in the face of the father and walk away from the entire incident, changing nothing until another hapless child suffers a similar fate. Is that what you would do? If you knew you could 'get away with it'. Unless this chap is a psychopath (about 1% of the World's population) it is probable he is feeling quite a bit of remorse, just as you or I would. Our common humanity is not a reason to gather round the State, as we are so often told, it's the key to being able to live together in a better, but never perfect, World.
So what's the solution? 'Something must be done!' is the clarion call of the Statist. By whom, how, when, where, what etc.? You probably have some opinions, but imagine if your opinions actually mattered. Currently your opinion doesn't really matter no what you're told. You can say almost anything you like but at the end of the day the 'solution' will be to vote for a politician and let them tell you the answers as they do here
'The dogs will likely be euthanized, city officials said.'
Or the employees of the State
"Certainly the owner has a responsibility when they have violent animals that those animals are to be secured at all times. If you can't secure the animal, you shouldn't have the animal. Period." (Detroit police Chief)
You may or may not agree. It matters not because they will make you pay for their opinions and solutions under any circumstances.
(Were they listened to?)
Why not subscribe to a security provision service that you choose and which reflects your opinions? Perhaps it would have a little more leverage than you could muster in an argument with your neighbor. It would have to compete and mediate with other similar security services subscribed to by all your fellow humans (which, unfortunately or not, might include the psychopaths and/or your neighbor) and that may not deliver the ideal solution in your opinion, but you can achieve a better approximation than a 'solution' that is effectively forced upon you as it comes as a single, indivisible entity in the form of the politician and his State.
If this sounds outrageous to you please ask yourself why you are so outraged at being able to make your own choices about how we secure ourselves and family in this world. Or is it the thought of others being able to do the same that is worrisome? Common humanity collectively making these choices through a genuinely free market minimizes the impact of the psychopaths relative to the current Statist approach that rewards, promotes and hands power over to them
(Reno and Clinton)
Saying that we don't like/disagree with the politicians after the fact equates to not actually addressing the issues at all. Isn't that what's so infuriating about these pit bull owners? That they've done what we, and 'our' elected politicians, do all the time ... abdicated responsibility and then regretted it after the fact.
