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To: wideawake
That your premise implies utter anarchy?

The definition of "anarchy" is "without a ruler".

Suits me.

73 posted on 02/06/2014 2:22:10 PM PST by elkfersupper
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To: elkfersupper
The definition of "anarchy" is "without a ruler".

The literal etymology of "anarchy" - an + arxos - actually means "without a magistracy."

"Without a ruler" would be anakratia, or "anacracy" along the same lines as "democracy", "aristocracy" etc.

The actual historic definition of the English word "anarchy", according to the OED, is "absence of government; a state of lawlessness."

I personally do not care to have a ruler.

What I do care to have are laws, and a government that executes the laws equitably.

The viewpoint that holds that anyone who is dissatisfied by the laws should feel free to break them if he wants to is a viewpoint that advocates complete lawlessness.

That is not what the Founding Fathers wanted, and it is not what anyone with a functioning brain wants.

74 posted on 02/07/2014 6:12:47 AM PST by wideawake
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