"Law and order" is bad unless the law is Natural Law rather than legislation. Too much order is as deadly as too much chaos.
Very few who scream and threaten "law and order" care about Natural Law one whit; they want their counterfeit "law" imposed at the barrel of a gun. They demand a police state so they can have their precious "law and order"! No matter who it kills.
Dead people are quite orderly. "Law and order" fetishists are fine with that if that's what it takes to get the temporary and imaginary safety they seek. This is typical of government supremacists.
Their modern rallying cry is the opposite of Patrick Henry's. They scream, "Screw liberty, Give me legislation and order!"
They are no different than any other archator, including the protesters who violate the life, liberty, or private property during their protests.
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You can’t have private property without a government, that is immediately a non-starter with your sect of anarchism. It is impossible without a set of laws establishing that it is your property, enforced by an over arching body of people. Without that, there is no owned land.
ReplyDeleteNatural law doesn’t work very well with more than about 500 people in the community. There is a very clear reason our hunting and gathering ancestors decided to form government after agriculture was developed and after our population sizes began to grow. You benefit from this decision every day of your life.
It is pretty funny that you guys (anarchists) believe that your intellectual prowess is more effective at finding solutions than damn near 200,000 years of evolution. Our societies evolved governments for a reason. That doesn’t mean they’re perfect and without flaws, nothing any human creates is without flaws. That includes ideologies and political philosophies (like anarchism) not only does your philosophy have flaws on paper (it’s impossible that it doesn’t unless you’re prepared to deify yourself and others who support and add to the philosophy) but you haven’t even discovered the flaws that would inevitably appear once it is implemented.
ReplyDeleteIf you are proposing an idea that defies the gradual accumulation of knowledge that our ancestors had, that led them to creating systems, that are more or less still in place today, then you better have a whole lot of strong positive evidence for its superiority. You guys have a lot of ‘what if’s’ and negative evidence. Which means ‘I don’t accept this answer or solution, therefor my solution is the correct one and it is superior.’ That isn’t evidence, that’s guess work and ideologically driven assertion.
You should probably error on the side of caution when it comes to things like this. Instead of completely abandoning the system that took 175,000 years create, has evolved for the past 5,000 years into various forms and types, you should look on how to improve them.
We have government less society in the past, I’d bet any amount of money you’d not want to live in them. The vast majority of our species’ time on this planet has been government less, yet every single inch of progress that our species has made has occurred under governmental societies (except for the invention of agriculture, which was huge obviously).
Governed societies have existed for less than 3% if our species time on this planet. Yet it has seen 99% of the technological advancements you use to write your anti-government blogs and complain about non-existent tyranny (assuming you live in the US)
The US and the west has their problems, no doubt. However, we are the most pro-human government (and likely society) that has ever existed on this planet. We have a judicial system that assumes innocence (which is a miracle) our judicial system isn’t predicated on revenge (which is a miracle) success within our society isn’t predicated on power (which is another miracle) the list goes on and on and on.