A Case for Anarchism
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So anarchy is whatever the individuals in the society choose it to be? Ok, then I'll make the case individuals in our society have made the choice (and affirm that choice every day) to have the form of government we live under.
It doesn't matter whether it's the smartest or the physically strongest that asserts their will on the rest - it's still will to power and the rest is means to an end. If authoritarian government is not antithetical to your particular definition of anarchy, then what's the argument about?
No anarchy is whatever the individual decides it to be
We've been at this. Society is made up by individuals and individuals live in a society. Absent some form of government and authority, what guarantees one individual's wants and needs will be respected by the other individuals? If we both live in an anarchy why shouldn't I steal your stuff because I decided I like it and it's fair that I should own it?
Because I know society doesn't protect the individual, the individual protects the individual. Superior firepower supercedes whatever government or society one finds oneself in. You realize in America police have no duty to protect you right? Sauce
Having more than two individuals together is already a society. Again, society is an abstraction - it's a bunch of individuals living and working together. Individuals form hierarchies. Those with superior firepower and cunning get on top of the others and form what we'd call a government regardless of the manner in which they govern.