Most people here, including me, are from countries with stable governments and not so much to fear from the government.
People talk about Donald Trump and the police but I don't think anyone here has any practical fear of immediate direct violence from any government related organization on a day to day basis.
A change from a situation with government, to one without, for most of us here would require a revolution of some sort.
So for most if not everyone here it's like asking do you want stability, your life savings still in your bank account, your job, and maybe a walk in the park at the end of the week. OR would you like to try to organize taking down an armed superpower.
In a situation where you could wave a magic wand and there would be no government that doesn't necessarily eliminate anything you mentioned from the situation. A society could agree to uphold some sort of system of law that would be funded by consent to give their money to that cause rather than have it taxed.
I've heard some interesting arguments for anarchy and a lot against it, I don't consider myself to have a position on it myself. But even the arguments I've heard for anarchy rely on a lot of conditions for it to work, and some sort of system of capitalism/voluntary exchanges of money with an an agreement against violent aggression.
People talk about Donald Trump and the police but I don't think anyone here has any practical fear of immediate direct violence from any government related organization on a day to day basis.
A change from a situation with government, to one without, for most of us here would require a revolution of some sort.
So for most if not everyone here it's like asking do you want stability, your life savings still in your bank account, your job, and maybe a walk in the park at the end of the week. OR would you like to try to organize taking down an armed superpower.
In a situation where you could wave a magic wand and there would be no government that doesn't necessarily eliminate anything you mentioned from the situation. A society could agree to uphold some sort of system of law that would be funded by consent to give their money to that cause rather than have it taxed.
I've heard some interesting arguments for anarchy and a lot against it, I don't consider myself to have a position on it myself. But even the arguments I've heard for anarchy rely on a lot of conditions for it to work, and some sort of system of capitalism/voluntary exchanges of money with an an agreement against violent aggression.
Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.
Impersonation is treason.
