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Originally posted by Sherlock Holmes
Because anarchy is an idiotic, fundamentally flawed ideal, which would leave most people up # creek without a paddle, and would regress human civilisation by about 10,000 years.
Just because governments are corrupt doesn't mean that a knee-jerk alternative should be mindlessly supported. Remodelling the current governmental structure is infinitely preferable to reverting to the ''Law of the Jungle'' way of living. Most self-proclaimed ''anarchists'' would run a mile if they had to live in their fantasy ''every man for himself'' society, and would soon be begging for someone to step in and help them in their new unsecure, lawless reality.
edit on 1-7-2011 by Sherlock Holmes because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Sherlock Holmes
Originally posted by NuroSlam
when will you people embrace anarchy and put an end once and for all to the slave masters known a government?
Because anarchy is an idiotic, fundamentally flawed ideal, which would leave most people up # creek without a paddle, and would regress human civilisation by about 10,000 years.
Just because governments are corrupt doesn't mean that a knee-jerk alternative should be mindlessly supported. Remodelling the current governmental structure is infinitely preferable to reverting to the ''Law of the Jungle'' way of living. Most self-proclaimed ''anarchists'' would run a mile if they had to live in their fantasy ''every man for himself'' society, and would soon be begging for someone to step in and help them in their new unsecure, lawless reality.
edit on 1-7-2011 by Sherlock Holmes because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Openeye
As long as there is extreme violence, there is no hope for those who live peacefully and do not have it within their means to wage war against an enemy hell bent on destroying them. And in an anarchist world we would see the revival of many extreme ideologies which feed on power and actively attempt to gain control over land and resources to expand the empire. This is exactly what has happened for the last 10.000 years. Tribes vs Tribes to Empires vs Empires to Nations vs Nations.
To do what your suggesting would to take a step back and repeat our history. There must always be government, just one that is for the people and not against them.
All governments are lier's and murderers, and that they are waging a war on our consciousness to make us fat, lazy and subservient.
If Ron Paul is not elected in 2012...I am leaving the country.
I see nothing wrong with hiring a free market military force to protect an area, one which is accountable to the people who pay them. suppose, I live in a community of 1000 people, would I pay to support a standing military? yes, would that mean they could wage war willy nilly? no, if they did they wouldn't get paid.
As long as there is government there will be slavery, its the cold hard fact. It is impossible to hold "government" accountable for its actions as there is no way to defund them. you can't withdraw your "consent". belief that government is the answer is an act of blind faith.
Nothing is going to change until we start to think outside the box, and the box is government.