We're Anarcho-Capitalists, ask us anything!

Beside SpaceX, what other private company is doing this kind of research? I thought in the USA it was all NASA and SpaceX, while in Europe you had only ESA. (Russia, India and China space companies are state companies right?)

It's been a while since I've looked, but you'll be surprised. The US military uses a couple private companies, so does NASA. There will be more. Competition and innovation brings prices down. Yes, many governments still have control of their space exploration. But there are lots of private enterprises that are in and are moving into this marketh-humans-space.html It's not just the domain of governments any more.

We lost gun rights in 2004.

I've got a lot of Brazilian friends who think otherwise. That's a shame if that is the case. I haven't taken the time to find out myself. So I'm ignorant concerning this.

I really don't have a strong opinion on this. I think I would rather have guns rights, but I have my worries. In a highly violent country as Brazil, after restoring guns rights I imagine some bad conflicts can happen... But, well, right now only the police and the "bad guys" have guns, and surely it is not working very well.

I think most of our violence problems come from the poverty of the past and our way of dealing with the war on drugs. In Rio de Janeiro, the drug dealers almost rule in the slums, and they have great gun power. It's not uncommon to have gun fights between the police and the drug dealers.

Isn't it interesting how the drug lords keep the guns in the favelas? I'm sure you would agree that there must be far more privately held guns in those favelas than those held by the police and military combined (excluding the big armament of course). Yet they aren't rampaging in the non-favela streets. Doesn't that suggest to you that people in the favelas are far more interested in defence? So, why shouldn't the rest of the people have the right to defend themselves as well?

How has the War on People, sorry, Drugs, worked out in Brazil? Do you believe that Brazil would be better off with drugs being made legal or decriminalised? Drugs are a victimless crime after all, and we know now so much more about how much less harmful and addictive drugs (marijuana in particular) are compared to alcohol and other things.

In south america we didn't have much wars between the countries, but we had A LOT of coup d'etat (Mostly military). We don't really have problems with each other, but we have a lot of internal problems. Some people say Venezuela is on the brink of a new coup d'etat.

Yes. It isn't in societies (excluding government who have to use force to exist) best interest to use force against each other. Its always in societies best interest to cooperate together and peacefully exchange.

/r/brasil Thread