Why are people so affraid of anarchy?

[FatAndFaithless]

The fact that he uses medieval knights bossing everyone around as an example is priceless as well.

Why is that example wrong, exactly? They were trying to stop people from being violent by having knights (=police) go everywhere and by having insane torture methods. Yet, the violence was very high. Today, police intervenes much less often and is much less cruel. But, the violence is much lower than it was in the Middle Ages. By that logic, there would be the least crime if there was no government trying to stop crime at all.

If you think that knights = police, and that their job was to 'stop people from being violent', I have to wonder about the quality of your education. This is one of the more nutty non-theism-related threads I've seen in a while on here.