(November 30, 2018 at 12:36 am)DodosAreDead Wrote: OP, if there was no rule of law you'd have all the religious freedom you desire... until your neighbor comes and hacks you into a million pieces with a chainsaw because he didn't like you. Then you'd be dead. So good luck with that.
A common but weak objection against anarchism and the idea of a stateless society. It presumes human beings wake up one day and say “hey, let me dice up my neighbor with my chainsaw just for the heck of it”. Society can theoretically function without a state. Our first human societies were stateless. They were organized around tribe. The modern nation state is just that - “modern”. Before that we had dynastic rule, but they were not as omnipresent as today’s modern states. There were no such thing as passports, visas, SIN, or even driver’s licences.
The problem with the rule of law is that that law is often not right.
