Other than libertarian anarchists (which I'm not), libertarians think some amount of government is necessary, which implies a nonzero level of staffing.
But this is a case of misallocated staffing rather than understaffing when you look at the whole picture. There are lots of people assigned to seeing that people get locked up, and not enough to checking whether they should have been locked up. The fact of having a certain amount of people to perform an act of force, however justified, creates an obligation to have people who check on whether it is actually justified.
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Date: 2009-03-12 03:18 pm (UTC)But this is a case of misallocated staffing rather than understaffing when you look at the whole picture. There are lots of people assigned to seeing that people get locked up, and not enough to checking whether they should have been locked up. The fact of having a certain amount of people to perform an act of force, however justified, creates an obligation to have people who check on whether it is actually justified.