This book, which advocates the abolition of anarchic anarchy and advocates liberalism, individualism, and openness as utopian ideologies, emphasizes the morality of the state while exploring an idealistic view of reality from a conservative worldview.

Our task in Chapter 3 was to demonstrate that the dominant protection agency within a territory satisfies the following two conditions for being a state: it possesses the necessary monopoly on the use of force within that territory, and it protects the rights of all people within that territory—even if this universal protection is provided only in one way.


This very crucial aspect of the state is why individualist anarchists condemn it as immoral.
Our other task was to show that this monopoly and redistributive element was itself morally legitimate, that the transition from the state of nature to the microstate (the monopoly element) was morally legitimate and did not violate anyone's rights, and that the transition from the microstate to the minimal state (the monopoly element) was also morally legitimate and did not violate anyone's rights.

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