/liberty/ - Liberty

>>84127

Then i'm sure you can leave a really bad Yelp review

>>84128

This. Welcome to free market!

>>84127

This is why you don't hire a foreign PMC.

>>84127

>What if my PMC wants to go out of business and face persecution?

>>84192

Do you make any difference between random hired thugs from centuries ago and a modern PMC? Pillaging was so common during wartime that it's redundant to mention it. The cases where it didn't happen was when they either had no time to, historians straight up tried to cover it up, or there was a specific policy to kill anyone who steals, or tries to rape.

Hell, pillaging was the main source of income for some regions like Scandinavia. You know what you get when you see/hire the snownigger.

>Much of the destruction of civilian lives and property was caused by the cruelty and greed of mercenary soldiers.

It pales in comparison with what any State army has done.

>>84218

Just hire a different PMC.

>not running your own PMC

smh

>>84252

Maybe, but even the fact that it calls itself a PMC would dim their chances of creating a belief in their legitimacy without which they will never be sustainable as a state. Even other services available would not do. Also, borderless nature of ancapistan would also be a serious problem for such a thing, as people could move out to a land out of the PMC's reach, where it would have to face other PMCs. If they do try to fight they are also disadvantaged, as they won't get the monetary support while others do, as you cannot be a PMC and be as invasive as a state without losing customers and being the initiator of aggression, with all the disadvantages.

>>84252

Again, this is why you don't hire foreign PMCs.

>>84127

>What if the PMC I hired turns on me and robs me instead?

Then you got robbed. I mean, what answer do you expect? What if your baker shoots you? Then you are dead. That simple. The free market is not a force field protecting you from evil people. For that matter, neither is the government.

Also, I'd pay to retake the holy land.

>>84128

This is actually the correct response, sarcastic as it is. If the PMC starts robbing its customers, it won't get any more customers. Other PMC's will be patronized instead. The one that robbed you will lose customers and its power compared to other PMC's, making it easy pray for the ones that don't rob their customers. Eventually, the customers end up with the PMC's that actually protect them.

>But what if they earn more money from committing robbery than from protecting me?

Then you're begging the question. Good thing is, even then, there are other options. Fortify your home, carry a weapon around, take basic self defense classes, found a neighborhood watch, the options are endless.

>What if they don't work?

Then you're begging the question really hard. What if a billionaire decides that murdering you is worth his entire fortune? You're dead. Same if a president decides the billionaries fortune is worth that to him. Same if your dog one day starts hating your guts and bites your throat off.

>>84192

Well, compare that to mercenaries in the Italian city states after the Thirty Years War. They would outmaneuver each other for months, then pitch a battle in which no one might even die. Villagers would stand around and watch the fight. Towns would surrender and then surrender to the competition a week later, with zero bloodshed.

The Thirty Years War was the result of Protestants and Catholics going at each other, then a Swedish tyrant showed up with his heavily subsidized army and unleashed hell in Germany, and then things kinda escalated. The states themselves hired the mercenaries and then defaulted so bad the guys had to loot and pillage to survive in a foreign country.

>>84218

>Or if it makes agreements with an opposing PMC under the table not to fight each other since fighting is expensive, even though you contracted them?

Then stop paying them. Then praise the free market for reintroducing limited warfare.