“Considerations and Reflections of a Veteran Reactionary Libertarian >> again reply.

“Considerations and Reflections of a Veteran Reactionary Libertarian >> ” I now realize that the criticism I made against Hoppe’s video was partly wrong. You must never support any state, regardless of the time or war situation. I analyzed this from different angles to try to counter that argument. One of the most convincing counterarguments I could come up with in my mind was:

“If a state exists, and you fall sick during that time, isn’t going to a government hospital the same as accepting benefits from the state?”

I tried to solve this from an anarcho-capitalist point of view, but I struggled a bit to do it properly. Still, I found a better counterargument. Even though I still have a slight doubt about how correct it is, let me say it anyway:

**“There’s a clear difference between directly helping the state and using a facility that exists because of the state. Helping the state in order to make it grow again is not the same as using a hospital built with taxpayer money. Using such a hospital doesn’t directly help the state to grow again. Therefore, using a government facility is not inherently wrong.

To give another example: roads are also built by the state. But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t use them, right?”**

But even then, the main problem in that video was something else:

1. It claimed Israel committed genocide.
2. It supported Ukraine’s defeat.

How can we justify these two points?

To prove genocide, at the very least there must be evidence that civilians were deliberately attacked — or official orders from the Israeli government to kill civilians. Without such evidence, the mere fact that civilians died is not enough to validate the claim that Israel committed genocide.

As for Ukraine — How can an anarcho-capitalist want Ukraine to be defeated? Wouldn’t that just mean another state ends up winning? Shouldn’t we instead want the less evil Ukraine to win? Ukraine has not committed violations at the level of “high evil.” And NATO’s involvement is not a high-level violation either.