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RE: How would an anarchist society function? #10
Honestly, this is indeed a very difficult government or anti-government to consider/evaluate. This is for a few reasons, I will try to describe the issues I foresee very clearly (please let me know if you want some clarification.

The first issue I see is the idea of free will. I think that this leaves a "regular" society in a governed society to have some people who choose to resist or who do not like to follow the rules. Knowing this, removing all laws may increase that number. I do not think that "good people" would go extinct not right away at least. I think that it is certainly possible for natural selection to remove some of the qualities that come as a luxury to a governed society but deviation from "norms" are almost always inevitable.

The next issue I see is how unbalanced the society is. If things are too unbalanced in favor of violence and impulsive behavior it's probably pretty likely that almost all of the population would be killed off. If this were the case, we could be sent back centuries to a more animalistic time in our history.

All in all, there are a lot of issues to be considered with Anarchy, most of which I probably don't feel educated on enough to be able to make a reasonable, educated opinion on. What I can say is that Anarchy poses a huge gamble, one that could most likely be avoided if another form of government was used instead. I personally believe that structure is important but my idea of structure is different from what most perceive that definition to be. Democracy is supposed to be a perfect system in that it is a skeletal system that allows the people to restructure to suit their own needs. This system's definition is Utopian (like every single government structure's definition) and, as expected, has been defected into a hole. Some may argue the size of the hole but it has nonetheless failed in some aspects. This can be attributed to many things but personally I blame the people. Maybe in the founding father day's people weren't as lazy or had less to worry about but that has been our downfall. I have personally seen intelligent people downgrade themselves because they choose to watch TV or play games or drink or do drugs, etc instead of being productive. I don't blame it on the nature of these distractions but because they are there and people are stressed, they choose to cope using these distractions and thus become addicted in a sense to these. Meanwhile, our government employees and corporate heads have the freedom and privacy to act mostly on their own will and for their own profit and needs.

I know I diverged from the original topic here but I think this is still an important fact to note. Maybe an anarchy would take away most of those distractions and would force society to act upon more pressing matters and cope with more healthy solutions. On the other hand, it may give more people the opportunity to bypass any sort of healthy coping mechanisms and choose to rape, murder, or harm one and another instead.

All in all, I think it's a gamble that is not worth the risk. We've come all this way so instead of tearing down whats already built, why not renovate instead. :-)
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RE: How would an anarchist society function? - by DarkMuse - 12-17-2016, 04:31 AM



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