Posted on 01/14/2002 6:38:35 AM PST by SteamshipTime
The natural human order is anarchistic, as the author of this article points out quite eloquently. Government is a perversion of natural community, which is a consensual ad-hoc kind of thing. It is increasingly taking over the family as well, replacing father and mother with courts and CPS "professionals".
Government has no limits. That is the problem.
So only those with enough money to hire a PI can expect justice?
I might be for anarchy if I though people would follow the Golden Rule. The problem is they don't.
Sure, the "natural order" is to not have government...or computers, or electricity, or cars, or modern medicine, or indoor pluming, or...
Anarchism only works in very small, mostly isolated groups. The larger the society, the more easily people can abuse/rob/kill others and get away with it.
Take another toke 'bro, you ain't high enough yet. Your solution is perfect in a society that does not breed contempt, jealousy, and greed. Your societal description is reflective of a StarTrek episode. It would take many generations of re-programming of mental processes to get to the utopia that you seek. But, you will never be able to simply throw some cultural switch and "whango-bango" everybody is "thinking ourside the box". Your utopian dreams are, at best, unattainable, and at worst, communism.
Semper Fi
Anything may be asserted.
C'mon cdwright. Make us proud.
ONLY if you consider the Police Department to be "public property". DoJ stats say that 73% of violent crime occurs in the home with 86% associated with the family or families that reside there. Get some REAL facts witll you, not something that is a mixture of the "legalize pot" and the Harry Browne Libratarian diatribe.
Semper Fi
Government is, by definition, monopoly power. Why do you think government would live by the Golden Rule when you think individual people would not?
Since government is founded on the idea that theft (AKA taxes) is acceptable, government is far less likely to obey the Golden Rule than individuals are.
Whoa hoss, you can't have it both ways. Insurance, in an "outside the box" anarchic society???? Perish and forbid. You should carefully frame your utopia, p[ublish it then come back and frame your arguements against your baseline, you are WAYYYYY out there in this comparison to anarchy.
Semper Reality
And what percentage of these are mysteries with the victim unidentified, do you think? I would say that it is approximately zero. Learn to read instead insulting me and quoting statistics which have nothing to do with the issue at hand.
Wow, you really do live inside the box, if you think that it is impossible to have insurance without government.
After reading your and BlackbirdSST's posting, all I see is a camoflauged effort to play the same old libratarian saw but with a prettier wrapper. If this is so right, so pure, and so easy, why havn't the masses latched on to it and voted the "bums" out of office? Its because it isn't an answer.
Until you can eradicate the base instincts of man, those selfsame evils I listed previously, then you are stuck with the 80-20 rule. Societies cannot simply make mid-course corrections. It takes a LOT of time and energy to affect change in society. Simply declaring "anarchy rules" is NOT a solution. Give me a structured solution to move society to an anarchic base and I will stand beside you and defend it. But, don't destroy the existing system unless you have something or someway to accomodate the aftermath.
Semper Fi
Semper Reality
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