(September 9, 2017 at 11:14 am)Cecelia Wrote: People who seem to think Anarchy is a great way to run things, tend to be the ones who just don't want to pay taxes. They want to keep their hard earned money.
I wonder, then, what they would do when I decide to rob them blind under anarchy. I get a bunch of my friends together, and decide to rob you. About 500 of us, all armed to the teeth. Then with part of that money, we buy private mercenaries so you can't come after us.
Anarchy sounds pretty awesome actually. Let's do it. Steal from the rich, and kill all who get i n our way. Why not? Sounds like a sweet deal. Let's do it! You're still up for it... right?
Not that I'm an advocate of anarchy, but some of the opposition questions to anarchy don't prove much of a point.
In the situation where a person can gather together 500 friends, their only goal is to rob this one person, they're armed to the teeth and presumably none of them has any morals because they're all willing to use their power to rob this victim, that person is getting robbed with or without the existence of a government ran police force. Unless these 500 people are 6 years old or something.
In a sense it's an argument for a totalitarian government. Because what if you have just a normal police force, they're not over zealous, CCTV isn't watching everyone, no one has government required ankle tags on. And then what if 5 streets of people, let's say 100 people per street, decide to kill the occupants of a single household. What we need is a totalitarian government incase 500 people decide to pick on one person.
Aside from this argument, other arguments like lack of law and enforcement of contracts are valid points but I think people who argue for anarchy would say there are other methods of organizing these things aside from government power.
Just to clarify though I am definitely not in favor of anarchy, I'm pretty comfortable living under a government .
Overall I get the feeling that no matter what arguments an anarchist has that might look viable on paper won't work practically in the real world. A lot like the people who say communism would only work if it was the real communism.
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