Am I an Anarchist?

[The Grand Nudger]

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.

It doesn't presume that at all.  It presumes that human beings have -always- found a reason to hack up their neighbors.  Yeah, sure, also..sometimes, just for the lelz. Presumes probably isn't the right word, more like observes. Yes, humans are genuinely good and decent. We're also murderous. Real hard core motherfuckers, look around you, there are very few animals that don't instinctively recognize us for what we are (and the ones that like us are just as murderous as we are..we have that in common with each other). Some people see that as a dichotomy. I don't. I note that the things that make us decent are very commonly the same things that make us murderous.

Last sentence is spot on.  Wouldn't the solution be to make the law more consistent with what is right, rather than get rid of laws or states? Ideally, and most of the time, we don't actually need their protection...but when we do.....