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To: chookter
Gimme your lunch money or die geek-boy!

Thats authority -- power really, rooted in violence, or the threat of violence. a goal of anarchism (in the same utopianistic fashion that perfect competition is a goal capitalism) is the eradication of concentrations of power, or of unjustified concentrations of power. you're point's been made. and its been addressed -- again you're mistaking freedom for chaos. Would you say the same thing about the United States -- for sure one of the freer societies in the world -- that it is a "law of the jungle". that it has lead to a situation where its "gimme your lunch money or die geek boy"? (Actually this last one is a bad example, as schools are quite a bit like that), that it has lead, in effect, to tyranny?

63 posted on 12/12/2001 11:21:28 AM PST by gfactor
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To: gfactor
Thats authority -- power really, rooted in violence, or the threat of violence. a goal of anarchism (in the same utopianistic fashion that perfect competition is a goal capitalism) is the eradication of concentrations of power, or of unjustified concentrations of power.

'Unjustified' by what standard of justice under anarchy? If it's anarchy, who's gonna decide what that standard of justice is?

you're point's been made. and its been addressed -- again you're mistaking freedom for chaos. Would you say the same thing about the United States -- for sure one of the freer societies in the world -- that it is a "law of the jungle"?

Of course not, the US isn't anarchy. That's what that dopey little girl is upset about.

I will make her my comfort-girl when I become the Maximum Leader of her dreamy anarchic country.

67 posted on 12/12/2001 11:28:09 AM PST by Cogadh na Sith
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To: gfactor
or of unjustified concentrations of power.

Are justified concentrations of power just naturally apparent to all -- or does the sheriff of Anarchy County decide?

74 posted on 12/12/2001 11:43:21 AM PST by Whilom
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