(June 23, 2015 at 5:14 pm)abaris Wrote:(June 23, 2015 at 4:11 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: A law without a government backing it up is no more than a suggestion. They are just delusional idiots, imagining that people would follow laws without a government backing them up. Hell, even with a government, people are often quite willing to break the law. What do you think would happen if there were nothing enforcing the law?
I would call them Utopists. One can always hope that human nature allows for peaceful interactions. Is it realistic? No. But a dreamer isn't automatically an idiot.
Even that isn't entirely true. The anarcho-capitalists don't think human nature will lead to peaceful interactions; they're the ones who believe that the free market will cure all social ills. They tend to sound a lot like the religious nuts, only they worship the free market as some kind of invisible, omni-benevolent diety that will bring happiness to all who accept it. As for me, I can't imagine a world more distopian than one where you have to buy police service or courts. I mean, the super wealthy already get away with a lot now, but if social institutions like that were literally their employees, I can't see them ever being held accountable for anything.
I suppose this all depends on what type of anarchism you believe in. They all claim their brand of anarcho-_____ is the only "real" anarchism.
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"If you cling to something as the absolute truth and you are caught in it, when the truth comes in person to knock on your door you will refuse to let it in." ~ Siddhartha Gautama