Anarchy

Posted by Rozar 11 years, 5 months ago to Philosophy
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Alright here we go. I've been looking into anarchy for the past few weeks and it's starting to get to me. So I want to discuss it here with everyone who would like to help me out.

Mostly I intend on playing devil's advocate and debating a few issues with you from an anarchist perspective to kind of test it out.

Any input would be wonderful so let me know what you think. :)

Some food for thought:

What is the purpose of a government and does it accomplish that purpose or make it worse.

What can the government do that the free market can't?

Governments use force to redistribute wealth, the government doesn't own anything, or produce anything, and is funded by force. So anything the government does is forced redistribution.

Right?

Why couldn't individuals survive in a community without government?

Thanks I'll try to add more as time progresses.

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  • Posted by $ minniepuck 11 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    hmm that's an interesting idea. what would a company do if it was brand new and didn't have a credit established? would the third party still take them on?

    this is helpful for me, too. it's giving me ideas for a project I'm preparing for. so, thank you, too.
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  • Posted by Rozar 11 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    So imagine there was no government, how would people overcome a problem like that? The response I read was about a form of insurance. If you have good credit you can use a third party to vouch for you. It's like pay-pal, you sign a contract with a payed third party to guarantee each side will stick to it's side of the contract. If one party fails to uphold it's side, the third party will pay the one who was shorted the amount that was initially agreed upon when the contract was signed. The consequences of the person who failed to hold up his end of the bargain would be a black listing and a Mark on his credit, making it more expensive for him to find a third party to actually vouch for him. Obviously the first company who vouched for him would alert others that he was unreliable to the point he couldn't form any contracts.

    Thank you for replying it means a lot to get this off my chest.
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  • Posted by $ minniepuck 11 years, 5 months ago
    enforce contracts? if you make a deal with another party and they back out and you lose 50k, what's your recourse? I'm assuming stalking said party with a shiv in your pocket is unacceptable.

    just the first thing that came to mind.
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  • Posted by Rozar 11 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Are you trying to compare humans to atoms with your analogy to the brownian motion phenomenon? Because unless you had another meaning, it seems like an individual moving through a crowd would either navigate around it or attempt to convince said crowd to join his path. Atoms move in random direction where as each human has a direction he wants to take his life.
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  • Posted by Rozar 11 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    But whose to say we can't use social media to warn each other about the guy at the edge of the woods! Like if a community heard that someone was tryingto forcefully subject people to something, why couldn't the said community organize to stop it?


    P.S. I'm googling Brownian motion
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  • Posted by khalling 11 years, 5 months ago
    looking into anarchy. lol
    anarchy always turns into dictatorships. watch out for the guy with the biggest club lurking at the edge of the woods
    constructing a rational society is like constructing a building. it does take purposeful thought. anarchy is Brownian motion.
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