Because the coming of Messiah is very near. The rest of our conversation is predicated on the assumption that Messiah hasn't come yet, and will be moot when he does.
To me this is suspicious because I wonder if you have a paranoia about structure.
On the contrary, I keep saying plain as day that you keep insisting on the need for "structure", where that value-neutral term almost certainly means that there must exist a hierarchy of the sort usually called "government".
If you believe that taxation is not theft, then you are part of the problem: you believe that some theft is morally legitimate. IF humans ever achieve true civilization, if will not involve any adult human initiating force on any other adult human for any reason whatsoever.
I can't tell if you're really understanding this, because most humans can't imagine a world without "government", and you seem to have the same difficulty. Such people are usually easy to spot: explain to them how society works without government, and they ask, "So who's in charge?" Nothing you say will convince them that there isn't really a government at work somewhere in the picture. After all, having a government is synonymous with "civilization"....
I am, in fact, not on your property and thus not, in fact, infringing on your rights, and thus not, in fact, someone you are justified in shooting at.
Obviously I won't shoot you for telling me that I must obey the government. If I had a death wish, I would shoot the government emissary who tries to infringe on my rights, not you. But to the extent that you condone his crimes, you are indeed part of the problem. You're essentially an unindicted co-conspirator.
No, the concept of "rulership" is the concept of, do we support, somehow or another, anything systematic, in any way, or not?
No; you're experiencing the difficulty that I described above. Namely, you can't really accept the concept that "rulership" itself is not necessary. If I'm not infringing on your rights, then the ruler has nothing to do. If I am, you will defend yourself, and again the ruler has nothing to do. No ruler is actually necessary.
In fact I'm a minarchist, rather than an anarchist, for one reason. Humans aren't capable of accepting that rulership is itself not necessary. Therefore, if all governments magically vanished tomorrow, a critical mass of people would immediately start creating them. They'd start with warlords, and work their way up to congresses in no time. The folks (like me) who say, "Hey, you've just been freed from slavery--why do you want back IN?" will be suppressed quickly.
Yes, I believe there must be "government".
Exactly. Too many people make the same mistake. Believing in government means you believe the government can tax me, whether I like it or not. I assume you'll make the silly excuse that I'm "benefitting from government services" that I never asked for and, given a choice, wouldn't pay for. In other words, you believe that one special gang of thugs should be blessed with the authority to take my stuff, imprison my person, and even, potentially, take my life. You are part of the problem.
Government, as a broad principle, creates patterns by way of standards.
Your flowery language seems to help you dodge the hard reality. "Government" is a bunch of people who can take our stuff, whether we like it or not, and can use whatever level of force against our persons that they deem necessary for their own ends. When the Mafia does it, it's organized crime. When a man in a dark suit does it, you believe he's entitled.
If you think something magical will happen and then no dude will ever steal my car...
Of course people will try. However, you will shoot them. Problem solved. Crime will exist, but it will be much rarer than it is today.
living beings are opportunistic
Exactly! They can comprehend the simple equation: "Trade benefits us both. Stealing will get my @ss shot. Hmmm.... Lemme think about this one..."
What about family?
I believe that family is necessary for society to function. That is one of the reasons that I don't believe humans will ever finally achieve civilization. You can see it in college: thousands of kids leave "daddy" every year, and immediately begin a terrifying clamor for a new "daddy". That's why every human being is, at some point in his life, a socialist. I was, until I was about 12. Most people are until their late twenties, when they've had to pay a few tax bills. Well-raised kids graduate from socialism by age 5 or so. But every last one of us is born socialist. That's why there seems to be such an inexhausitble supply of them.
Victims are sometimes their own victimizers, so I'm not sure that any society can virtually eliminate victimizers.
Civilization doesn't eliminate every negative aspect of humanity. If a man victimizes himself, then both parties are consenting to the transaction. There's not much that "society" can do about it. Nor should we try! Your reasoning is precisely that of the folks who would ban smoking, or fatty foods... as soon as you decide that someone should force me to do X, for my own good, you're demonstrating that you've only recently swung down from the tree branches and started walking upright.
I am so with you on this. Nice logic. When the Kingdom comes, the need for men to rule over one another will cease. Here's the idea couched in religious/social authority, but applicable nonetheless:
Matthew 23
Religious Fashion Shows
1Now Jesus turned to address his disciples, along with the crowd that had gathered with them. 2"The religion scholars and Pharisees are competent teachers in God's Law. 3You won't go wrong in following their teachings on Moses. But be careful about following them. They talk a good line, but they don't live it. They don't take it into their hearts and live it out in their behavior. It's all spit-and-polish veneer.
4"Instead of giving you God's Law as food and drink by which you can banquet on God, they package it in bundles of rules, loading you down like pack animals. They seem to take pleasure in watching you stagger under these loads, and wouldn't think of lifting a finger to help. 5Their lives are perpetual fashion shows, embroidered prayer shawls one day and flowery prayers the next. 6They love to sit at the head table at church dinners, basking in the most prominent positions, 7preening in the radiance of public flattery, receiving honorary degrees, and getting called "Doctor' and "Reverend.'
8"Don't let people do that to you, put you on a pedestal like that. You all have a single Teacher, and you are all classmates. 9Don't set people up as experts over your life, letting them tell you what to do. Save that authority for God; let him tell you what to do. No one else should carry the title of "Father'; you have only one Father, and he's in heaven. 10And don't let people maneuver you into taking charge of them. There is only one Life-Leader for you and them--Christ.
11"Do you want to stand out? Then step down. Be a servant.