Just don't pretend like killings of career criminals resisting arrest (like George Floyd) is what we're talking about.
With no laws, no police, no jails, no courts, and no justice system, everyone on of those incredibly evil people mention in the prior comment goes 100% free to continue their reign of terror.
Yet, of course, that's exactly the same as some people who slip through the cracks of a justice system that catches many such people a year. Prosecutes them with attempts to be fair. Puts them in jail so they can't hurt others.
Yup. Because someone might slip through the cracks, well.. that's precisely the same as what the prior poster said!
What a false equivalency.
The end result is, you need to be able to use violence, against those willing to use it against you. Note, that can be a last step, but without it?
Those who care not about stern looks, "talking tos", or cold shoulders will literally take everything you have, and kill everyone.
So now you fall to mob rule, lynchings, and what? Power of the strong man?
As soon as you organize, to provide for a response to organized thugs/criminals/rapists/murderers, you now have a government. That's how governments came into creation ; shared defense.
And you need that 24x7. And the people doing it for the community need to be paid. And you need a way to judge, and sentence, and on and on and on.
You cannot simply wave this away.
Second, it doesn't really matter. Two people working together is pretty much politics. It's government. It leads there. Cooperation requires coordination.
In any healthy small community everyone tries to, in order to keep a good reputation. In case of misunderstanding any third party appreciated by both parties may act as a judge/referee. The need for a government, especially central, only arises when the group isn't anymore a community but a large set of (on average) loosely related and interacting persons.
> Two people working together is pretty much politics. It's government. It leads there. Cooperation requires coordination
Coordination nor politics doesn't imply any government.
And then when you start having insane judges who rule that raping a child is perfectly fine, you will want to stop it, and thus you will invent your standardized laws.
There IMHO is major differences between "a single government, dedicated to regulate" (which attracts people willing to control others, often letting the most unscrupulous gain power) and "any chosen third party".
Where most people are most of the time reasonable they will oppose insanity, if necessary forcefully.
Anarchy is the "I can do it over the weekend" of politics. It glosses over so many details.
At least in a flat society you’d have an equal say to advocate for w/e you thought is just.
Personally for me, and many others who lean left, prison or death doesn’t sit right because it doesn’t address the root of the problem and it’s often used to quash dissent. This is perhaps what you find unsatisfying but if you were magically placed into an anarchist community you’d have more ability to advocate for what you thought was fair.