warpus
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But none of that will ever lead to any sort of anarchy. Right? Sounds like an ordered society to me
But none of that will ever lead to any sort of anarchy. Right? Sounds like an ordered society to me
I think this is closer to an anocracy, actually.Isn't anarchy a "state of disorder due to the absence of authority" ?
I think this is closer to an anocracy, actually.
I don't think we can identify "law" and "authority" in that way. Laws are, at the most fundamental level, agreed codes of conduct. All societies have laws, and all societies apply repercussions for people who violate those codes. Even in our hierarchical societies, the majority of law is civil rather than criminal, concerned with the complicated balancing of rights, obligations and interests rather than prohibitions enforced with violence, and the outcome of legal encounters does not very generally involve putting people into prisons.Isn't anarchy a "state of disorder due to the absence of authority" ?
So obviously since you have no legal frameworks, technically there is no lawnessness, since there is no rule of law. So yeah, in that sense anarchy doesn't equal to "lawlessness"
But in practice all hell would break lose and we'd end up with a Mad Max type situation, with worse costumes and more boring storylines. And a lot of people dying and suffering, no central authority to provide needed services like education, hospitals, fire fighters, police officers.. no military for national defense.. warlords consolidating territory.. people doing what they want, looting, pillaging, looting, raping..
I don't care how you define "lawlessness", but how can that be a goal anybody wants?
Ha.I think this thread is dead, thread starter seems to have given up on answering questions.
I don't think we can identify "law" and "authority" in that way. Laws are, at the most fundamental level, agreed codes of conduct. All societies have laws, and all societies apply repercussions for people who violate those codes.
You refer to people "doing what they want"- but what most people want is to leave orderly, peaceful lives.
Is it so implausible that, absent some external authority, they would strive to find some way to do that?
No, they instinctually know the right thing to doAre anarchists against stay-@-home orders?