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the trouble with anarchism is all that liberty (quokk.au)

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[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 0 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

The only free society we will get is an anarchist one where people agree to work together and create rules that they can all abide by. Those who don't want to abide by the communities rules can leave.

That's not anarchy. That's some form of democracy.

Any top-down system of governance will never be free by its very nature.

That's exactly the kind of logic bullies use to inflict their freedom on others.

Society only works by consent. If the people do not consent to the laws, they are authoritarian and should be resisted.

Real "I'm 14 and this is deep" energy here. Laws and governance of any kind are inherently rooted in consent to authority. Hell, even being a good citizen in an anarchy is about consenting to the authority of etiquette, basically the tyranny of empathy over free will. Authority invites resistance, arguing for resistance to authority simply because it exists is an empty nothing burger of a philosophy.

This all feels like a libertarian dog whistle to excuse politics lacking any empathy.

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

That is literally anarchy. You obviously do not know what anarchy is.