Are you an anarchist? The answer may surprise you (2000)

Re:Are you an anarchist? The answer may surprise you (2000) by perl4ever on Saturday September 05, 2020 @06:51PM (#24387483)

>This can sound reasonable when you think of it in terms of, "most people behaving in a reasonable fashion, most of the time". But anarchists don't want to eliminate hierarchical use of force for most cases, but for all of them.

As a card carrying -archist, I think it should be pointed out that no -archy can be maintained unless most people behave reasonably most of the time, either.

I'm not sure what my point is, just that most people are reasonable, even government employees.

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Re:Are you an anarchist? The answer may surprise you (2000) by natmaka on Sunday September 06, 2020 @05:56AM (#24390238)

For a gov employee "being reasonable" may mean "respect the chain of command, obey, apply the orders", and when the Great Leader isn't "reasonable" this may quickly and massively lead to Bad Things, as seen for example in the USSR, in Nazi Germany, Cambodia...

Befehl ist Befehl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_orders

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Re:Are you an anarchist? The answer may surprise you (2000) by perl4ever on Sunday September 06, 2020 @09:17AM (#24391100)

Being reasonable may mean following rules when contrary and/or corrupt orders are given. That is something that happens that has enormous value.

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Re:Are you an anarchist? The answer may surprise you (2000) by natmaka on Monday September 07, 2020 @04:34AM (#24397686)

When there isn't any fixed hierarchy (governments...), bad/selfish people don't amass power (counting on non-reasonable people who will blindly follow their orders) so everyone else can actually handle them on equal terms.

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