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- Embed this noticeancap is an okay philosophy in many respects, but it's lopsided because it's foundation is purely rational/intellectual and leaves no room for the greater forces of human motivation, emotion and passion. particularly the passion one feels when there is no means to support one's self or family, and the typically coercive power of the market in such a circumstance. if you want true freedom you can't simply commoditize absolutely everything and call it a day. there needs to be an element of compassion and prosocial ethos that brings property back into balance with need (as opposed to greed). in order to do so in a voluntary fashion requires not law, but culture. ancap is a very self-oriented philosophy in spite of it's reciprocal nature, and thus it misses that element nearly entirely. consequently in spite of violently agreeing with ancaps on most philosophical points, there's really not a single one I've met as yet that I'd actually want as a neighbor.