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Let us assume that we had successfully established a free society (Yey!). Let us further assume that, as we anticipate, personal protection services are provided by Private Defence Agencies (PDAs) each proposing its own private set of laws while conflicts between PDAs are resolved by mutually agreed upon arbitration agencies. My question is whether wars would be possible under this regime and if so, is it good or bad? More concretely, I have several specific scenarios in mind, I ask whether they are likely to happen & if so whether this is a flaw in the anarcho-capitalist vision which requires a remedy? The scenarios: 1. NOT POPULAR IS NOT FUN: Customer C of PDA P is a sceintist which conducts his experiments on monkeys that he rears for this purpose in his private property. His studies attract negative publicity from animal rights activists and are presented to the public as atrocious and superfluous. Public opinion is swayed against him and 10% of the customers of P petition it to end its business relations with C, As a result, PDA P now considers C as a liabilty rather than an asset, updates its laws to forbade such activities & requires customer C to conform to the updated law or give up her services. Customer C considers this to be his life's work and refuses to stop his research he prefers to hire the services of another protection agency but no serious agency agrees to accept him due to his unpopularity. The road is now open for animal rights activists to organise together & launch an act of aggression against the unpopular sceintist. In their rage, they kill the scientist & his family (to minimise the chance of future attributions against them) & divide all his property among them. 2. SUBJECT THE SECT: An indian sect from its own PDA, denoted A, in order to live peacefully under their own laws. PDA B, knowing that A's customers will never join it utilise its military advantage to impose a one sided agreement between A & B, which requires PDA A to pay PDA B an annual fee and forces A's customers to utilise agency B's courts in any dispute with B's customers. 3. FAR FROM THE EYE, FAR FROM THE HEART: Suppose that an agency in a desolate spot, converts to a rouge mode of operation (North Korea style), as the economic potential is small and as long as it doesn't provoke any major PDA she might be allowed to exist for a very long time as not enough individuals might be interested in funding liberation wars against it. In fact she might even agree not to compete with the other major PDAs and in return they might outlaw funding war operations against it. 4. DIVIDE & CONQUER: Suppose that PDAs are geographically well localized, than a rouge agency might be able to divide & conquer its enemies as remote agencies might be reluctant to pay for the war efforts.