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I’m surprised that an anarchist position is getting downvoted in this community. I guess the libs came to party.
I’m surprised that an anarchist position is getting downvoted in this community. I guess the libs came to party.
Thank you for your insightful comment. :)
ACAB!
Seriously, what are you talking about?
Anarchy. I’m an anarchist. I’m talking about anarchy. People do not need to be controlled/enforced/governed. We are perfectly capable of organizing a society ourselves. Stopping violence should not be the responsibility of a special group but everyone. Social pressure is more powerful than direct violence. Otherwise the police would not have such a cushy job.
What would be the motive to write or follow laws?
No one needs to write laws. Custom is already a ruleset that most people in a society follow. You don’t need laws on top of that. It’s unnecessary and creates cases where the right thing cannot be done because it’s illegal. Government creates a ton of unnecessary busywork that most people do not need to concern themselves with. What does the government do that you couldn’t do with free association and an empowered populus?
Do you follow laws just because you’re afraid of the police? Or is it because of the social pressure to not cause a fuss. Do you need rules to be written down on a piece of paper for you to follow them? I think not. I’ve followed a lot of “made up” rules because I understand these rules make my life better. Human beings are capable of working together without needing someone else to tell them how to live their life. We did it for millennia before archy clawed it’s way into every society (by colonizing the anarchic ones because they were “primitive”)
It’s not the CEOs/police or the existence of their function
Yes it is. You cannot have police that doesn’t abuse their power. If you have a position in society that gives people power, It’s the power-hungry that fill them. Everyone that doesn’t want to dictate other peoples lives will not fill those positions. so sooner or later they are going to be filled by people who want power and nothing else. It’s no coincidence archy keeps devolving into fascism and totalitarianism. It’s inevitable. Society elevates people who want power so you end up with people who believe they are god and can do no wrong.
No. We do not need cops. The police will always be a corrupt hand of state violence. As long as there are cops (as in special people who are allowed to use violence) in any form they will ultimately become corrupt. As long as law is enforced it is not equal, and it will never protect “the people”. The people are the only ones that can protect “the people”. You don’t need cops, you need everyone to start policing people around them. That is the only way everyone gets protection.
ACAB! All power to all the people!
Anti-statism. Anarchism is against all hierarchy. Including class.
Left-Right (Left-Right) and Authoritarian-Libertarian (up-down).
I should post a follow-up saying “You don’t have to listen to people that have no intention of listening to you”.
One needs to listen to a neo-nazi to understand them, help them. The problem is that they won’t listen to us because being angry is easier.
That is why I use anarchist instead. It means all of that while also making it clear that authoritarianism is not ok.
I will so thank you!