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Halstan wrote

How can you defend against bad folks under strict anarchism? I've always been unsure about that bit or maybe I'm just a coward?

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ziq wrote (edited )

Why can't the people come together to defend their own communities? We don't need a state to protect us from ourselves.

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Halstan wrote

Agreed, but how can we stop a group that's bigger than our group? Or a group more willing to be extra violent. I don't know. I just worry about this stuff.

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ziq wrote (edited )

Stop them from doing what? If everyone is equal and everyone has what they need to prosper, why would they attack their neighbors? And if they do kill their neighbors and double their resources, why would other communities tolerate warlords? They'd form a militia to take them out before they invade the next town.

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Halstan wrote

You don't worry about people feeling like they didn't get their fair share? In my life, I've jl seen people who hate for no reason and it scares me. Just look at our current political situation. I agree with you about how great it would be and is worth doing. I guess I'm just scared.

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ziq wrote

Honestly I think you're concern trolling and it's irritating.

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Halstan wrote

Sorry to irritate you. I thought it was a valid point. I've met a lot of nut jobs in my life.

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thirdnature wrote

one response to this is that a lot of the 'hate for no reason' comes from psychosocial dislocations and socioeconomic inequalities caused by hierarchical social systems.

warlords might arise, all an anarchist community could do is form militias to resist them. hopefully warlords would have hierarchical militias, because the anarchist non-hierarchical ones would have a way better chance of winning. but it might lose too. that's just the way things go

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Halstan wrote

You're right. If something is right and just you need to at least try

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