The government in anarchy
Don't you just wish the government would fall into a total anarchic state, or it crumbles so bad that anything you do will not be important? I want total freedom sometimes...
I would like that
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Da hell's wrong with you?
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Bring on the post apocalyptic future! I was ready for either way at the last election cycle. If Obama won and the nation collapsed my house and land would be called a commune. If Romney won and the nation collapsed my land and house would become a compound. One sounds like it is full of drugs and dirty people, the other one sounds like it is full of guns and paranoid people. It is important to be ready for anything! I guess people were thinking the 'end' was closer than it really was last election cycle. Side: I would like that
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Do you mean the American government? First the statement is an oxymoron, since government is the opposite of anarchy, unless you meant chaos on place of anarchy. Second I personally don't think the American populace is mature enough to handle anarchy. A large enough percentage still rely on welfare as a paycheck and don't intend to pay it back. Not including the elderly, who survive on money they payed to the government to take care of them in their old age. Side: Da hell's wrong with you?
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There is no such thing as a perfect solution. Outside of complete control of everyones life by a non-human hand (eg an AI or something to that effect), there is always room for vile things like this, and it will always happen. That doesn't mean we shouldn't do all we can to limit and prevent it, and it doesn't mean we should refrain from punishing those who commit such atrocities. The current system limits child rape and its ilk significantly. Remove legal penalties for the crimes, remove the provisions from Megan's Law, etc. and you end up with more atrocities. Side: Da hell's wrong with you?
I place no special value in the existence of government, except that it has the greater potential for gross preferentiality. By which I take anarchy to be an illusion of total freedom, with its own unique set of restrictions and drawbacks on both the individual and collective. While government can certainly become more abusive and detrimental to both individual and collective well-being than anarchy, it also has a greater potential for benefiting the individual and collective to a greater extent than anarchy. Besides, true anarchy is a far more temporal state than most any government. The moment power structures begin to define themselves it ceases to exist. Humans being social animals, this inevitably takes very little time. Anarchy is less a state of existence, and more the description of a process whereby previous power dynamics are restructured by way of total deconstruction. Side: Da hell's wrong with you?
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