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Originally Posted by Scin  Then again, I believe that people without restrictions are more likely to engage in dangerous deviant behaviour - such as butchering others for food, to use an extreme example, or stealing from them. In an anarchist society, I imagine a lot of people would try and steal from me, and as a result a lot of people would have to die. |
Why do people keep assuming that just because people
can do something bad, that they
will?
If you had the freedom to butcher others for food, would
you? I know I certainly wouldn't!
But you (indirectly) raise a good point. I suspect that people raised in a good Anarchist society would avoid most of the problems you describe. But how would we get there from here? This society is full of individuals who are used to government restrictions dominating their lives.
I suspect that this is at least part of the reason that Communism failed. It
might conceivably have worked if populated by people of an appropriate culture. But it inherited the people of Tsarist Russia - many of whom were mired in the old 'command and control' culture. That the outcome rapidly became a Tsarist Communism is not surprising.