A Case for Anarchism
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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.
No it's not. It could be whatever they decide it to be. It could a team or a partnership or an adversarial relationship as many marriages are.
society The totality of people regarded as forming a community of interdependent individuals. "working for the benefit of society." A group of people broadly distinguished from other groups by mutual interests, participation in characteristic relationships, shared institutions, and a common culture. "rural society; literary society." An organization or association of persons engaged in a common profession, activity, or interest.
anarchism 1 : a political theory holding all forms of governmental authority to be unnecessary and undesirable and advocating a society based on voluntary cooperation and free association of individuals and groups 2 : the advocacy or practice of anarchistic principles
Whatever, have it your way. It's pointless to argue with a broken record.