Blanc wrote:
From Jim Choate:
: The question was how would an anarchic system work in this respect, not how : do governments, relief organizations, and the general public act now. ................................................
The answer is that you cannot know in advance. Since anarchies are not formal societies, there would exist no centralized formal structures, so therefore such behavior cannot be predicted. Responses to emergeny situations would depend upon the psychology of those who are living in anarchy. Predicting how they would "work", when no one is coerced to function, requires imagining the potential for normal responses available to those who are free from remote control, who can decide for themselves whether they care, and what they're going to do about it, if anything.
Simple, they would work anarchically. If the guy whose house is burning down is an assh*le, then let it burn. Somewhen in the last 50 odd years, equality of opportunity (to not be an assh*le), got confused with egalitarianism (all people get the same treatment, assh*les included). Anarchy is admitting that egalitarianism can never work without promoting assh*lism.