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Anarchist idiots
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RE: Anarchist idiots
I have only studied anarchy a little bit, so I am not very in tune with what anarchists think. I don't have to understand their philosophy to understand that they don't believe that anarchy is going to be a hippie utopia. But as you pointed out, I may have misunderstood what it was some people were asserting.

I imagine they would say the second one is to some extent a true assumption. It's not as though things don't get done under anarchy. The rate at which power lines were put up in Somalia after 1995 increased, and barring a small hiccup, life expectancy also increased. Hobbes' assertion also doesn't seem to hold even among the worst of a society. Pirates in the Caribbean were able to more or less get along with one another even though they had no real rule of law. I would say anarchy is probably not as terrible or impossible as most people make it out to be. I can also understand how with the belief that anarchy is doable, people might value freedom to such an extent that they would choose anarchy over governance. I am not big on making valuations of intelligence based on preferences.

A lot of Anarchists that I have met like to use Weber's definition of government when having these debates. You however may have a different understanding of what a Government, and by it's definition Anarchy, entail.
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Anarchist idiots - by TaraJo - June 23, 2015 at 12:38 pm
RE: Anarchist idiots - by FatAndFaithless - June 23, 2015 at 12:41 pm
RE: Anarchist idiots - by TaraJo - June 23, 2015 at 12:44 pm
RE: Anarchist idiots - by Whateverist - June 23, 2015 at 12:44 pm
RE: Anarchist idiots - by TheRealJoeFish - June 23, 2015 at 12:45 pm
RE: Anarchist idiots - by Nope - June 23, 2015 at 12:51 pm
RE: Anarchist idiots - by vorlon13 - June 23, 2015 at 12:57 pm
RE: Anarchist idiots - by Minimalist - June 23, 2015 at 12:58 pm
RE: Anarchist idiots - by Dystopia - June 23, 2015 at 12:58 pm
RE: Anarchist idiots - by Napoléon - June 23, 2015 at 1:17 pm
RE: Anarchist idiots - by Dystopia - June 23, 2015 at 1:20 pm
RE: Anarchist idiots - by Napoléon - June 23, 2015 at 2:37 pm
RE: Anarchist idiots - by Pyrrho - June 23, 2015 at 1:41 pm
RE: Anarchist idiots - by downbeatplumb - June 23, 2015 at 1:44 pm
RE: Anarchist idiots - by TaraJo - June 23, 2015 at 1:27 pm
RE: Anarchist idiots - by Whateverist - June 23, 2015 at 1:29 pm
RE: Anarchist idiots - by Dystopia - June 23, 2015 at 1:53 pm
RE: Anarchist idiots - by Minimalist - June 23, 2015 at 1:33 pm
RE: Anarchist idiots - by abaris - June 23, 2015 at 1:40 pm
RE: Anarchist idiots - by Pyrrho - June 23, 2015 at 1:44 pm
RE: Anarchist idiots - by FatAndFaithless - June 23, 2015 at 1:55 pm
RE: Anarchist idiots - by Pyrrho - June 23, 2015 at 4:36 pm
RE: Anarchist idiots - by Dystopia - June 23, 2015 at 1:57 pm
RE: Anarchist idiots - by TaraJo - June 23, 2015 at 2:10 pm
RE: Anarchist idiots - by Pyrrho - June 23, 2015 at 2:24 pm
RE: Anarchist idiots - by Pyrrho - June 23, 2015 at 2:17 pm
RE: Anarchist idiots - by Dystopia - June 23, 2015 at 3:29 pm
RE: Anarchist idiots - by Napoléon - June 23, 2015 at 3:56 pm
RE: Anarchist idiots - by Pyrrho - June 23, 2015 at 4:11 pm
RE: Anarchist idiots - by abaris - June 23, 2015 at 5:14 pm
RE: Anarchist idiots - by Pyrrho - June 23, 2015 at 5:33 pm
RE: Anarchist idiots - by TaraJo - June 23, 2015 at 8:13 pm
RE: Anarchist idiots - by Pyrrho - June 23, 2015 at 9:34 pm
RE: Anarchist idiots - by TaraJo - June 23, 2015 at 9:50 pm
RE: Anarchist idiots - by abaris - June 24, 2015 at 1:04 am
RE: Anarchist idiots - by ignoramus - June 23, 2015 at 6:15 pm
RE: Anarchist idiots - by Pyrrho - June 23, 2015 at 10:08 pm
RE: Anarchist idiots - by CapnAwesome - June 23, 2015 at 10:15 pm
RE: Anarchist idiots - by TaraJo - June 23, 2015 at 10:22 pm
RE: Anarchist idiots - by CapnAwesome - June 24, 2015 at 12:37 am
RE: Anarchist idiots - by Napoléon - June 24, 2015 at 4:14 am
RE: Anarchist idiots - by CapnAwesome - June 26, 2015 at 2:10 pm
RE: Anarchist idiots - by Jackalope - June 24, 2015 at 12:53 am
RE: Anarchist idiots - by Fidel_Castronaut - June 24, 2015 at 4:13 am
RE: Anarchist idiots - by jesus_wept - June 24, 2015 at 5:10 am
RE: Anarchist idiots - by abaris - June 24, 2015 at 6:14 am
RE: Anarchist idiots - by Nope - June 24, 2015 at 8:05 am
RE: Anarchist idiots - by abaris - June 24, 2015 at 8:43 am
RE: Anarchist idiots - by Nope - June 24, 2015 at 9:10 am
RE: Anarchist idiots - by jesus_wept - June 24, 2015 at 12:39 pm
RE: Anarchist idiots - by das_atheist - June 24, 2015 at 7:04 pm
RE: Anarchist idiots - by nihilistcat - June 25, 2015 at 8:38 pm
RE: Anarchist idiots - by Dystopia - June 24, 2015 at 9:48 am
RE: Anarchist idiots - by nihilistcat - June 25, 2015 at 9:43 am
RE: Anarchist idiots - by Aristocatt - June 26, 2015 at 1:43 pm
RE: Anarchist idiots - by Napoléon - June 26, 2015 at 3:05 pm
RE: Anarchist idiots - by Aristocatt - June 26, 2015 at 4:00 pm
RE: Anarchist idiots - by Mister Agenda - June 26, 2015 at 5:38 pm
RE: Anarchist idiots - by nihilistcat - June 27, 2015 at 6:28 pm
RE: Anarchist idiots - by Cato - July 1, 2015 at 12:49 pm
RE: Anarchist idiots - by nihilistcat - June 27, 2015 at 7:29 pm
RE: Anarchist idiots - by Napoléon - July 1, 2015 at 11:49 am
RE: Anarchist idiots - by CapnAwesome - July 1, 2015 at 11:34 am
RE: Anarchist idiots - by JuliaL - July 1, 2015 at 1:53 pm
RE: Anarchist idiots - by Cato - July 1, 2015 at 2:05 pm
RE: Anarchist idiots - by nihilistcat - July 1, 2015 at 10:52 pm

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