In anarchism is so great, how did governments ever start up?

[ArrestPoliticians]

Would you care to list about 10 of those? BTW, min is very significantly smaller than small.

Interesting effort to move the goal posts

 

[Ronin Truth]

Interesting effort to move the goal posts

No, not really, isn't 'min' (AKA minimum) the lowest limit of 'small'? (As in, can't be any smaller)

Isn't 'max' (AKA maximum) the highest limit of 'large'? (As in, can't be any larger) <shrug>

A problem well defined is half solved.

"An anarchist is anyone who believes in less government than you do." -- Bob LeFevre

 

[Ronin Truth]

'crickets'?

 

[younglibertarian]

This is an interesting discussion, I myself am not decided on it. I think I would call myself a philosophical anarchist, in that the idea of the state being evil is true and that a 100% voluntary society COULD work. However this could only happen in a society where there was a sense of morality and protection of the weak. I don't see that coming into fruition in the real world.

Sadly

 

[Ronin Truth]

This is an interesting discussion, I myself am not decided on it. I think I would call myself a philosophical anarchist, in that the idea of the state being evil is true and that a 100% voluntary society COULD work. However this could only happen in a society where there was a sense of morality and protection of the weak. I don't see that coming into fruition in the real world.

Sadly

What does any of that have to do with not having a ruler? Is that just a rationaliztion and an excuse for not rocking the boat?

"If men are good, you don't need government; if men are evil or ambivalent, you don't dare have one." -- Bob LeFevre

 

[younglibertarian]

What does any of that have to do with not having a ruler? Is that just a rationaliztion and an excuse for not rocking the boat?

"If men are good, you don't need government; if men are evil or ambivalent, you don't dare have one." -- Bob LeFevre

I'm all for rocking the boat. I am just not 100% clear on how an anarchist society would protect the rights of the innocent. ANdno, I am not saying the government does a good job either.

 

[Ronin Truth]

I'm all for rocking the boat. I am just not 100% clear on how an anarchist society would protect the rights of the innocent. ANdno, I am not saying the government does a good job either.

OK, what does any of that have to do with not having a ruler?

The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude (pdf)

You want innocents rights protection? Start a group, an org, a movement. Waiting on government just ain't gonna cut it.