Originally posted by lasersailor184
So many people insulting Rhode Island pre-constitution. The funny thing is that no one has even spent the time to look up how things actually were.
If pre-constitution Rhode Island contained less than a few million people, boasted average lifespans that are shorter than modern ones, quality of life and education levels that are lower that our current levels and a rate of technological advancement that is incomperable to current rates, then looking at how things were, then, is a waste of time.
Unless you want to inhabit an island where there is no electricity or running water, your example is absolutely incomperable, in any way, to modern society, and therefore has absolutely no place in the modern context.
You could have just as easily pointed out that modern Amazonian Tribes are doing just fine without income taxes. Either way, with your claims utterly unsupported, your best justification for believing in the viablility of a modern anarchy was your assertion that you could shoot something from 600 yards.
And even if that is true, you're still unprotected from somebody who wants your stuff, and can shoot something from 900 yards.
I'll challange you again: Provide an example, of a modern, significant group of people that have been able to self-govern with no loss of duration or quality of life. In deference to your selective argumentation tactics, emphasize the words 'modern', 'significant', and the phrase 'duration and quality of life'.
