On Fri, 11 Sep 2015 00:11:30 +0000 Zenaan Harkness <zen@freedbms.net> wrote:
Juan, are there aspects of political anarchism (I think we need a term other than "anarchy" if we want Joe Sixpack to not glaze over) which you have personal doubts about, or you're not sure about how best to handle, or even unsure about how to educate others about?
Well, I don't care too much about 'educating' people lately and I certainly know my method is far from perfect... As far as doubts regarding political anarchy go, no I don't have any doubts. I don't care about 'utilitarian' arguments. It doesn't matter if some people think that they can get allegedly 'better' outcomes by taxing, kidnapping and killing their neighbors. Pro-government people don't have any legitimate authority and can't even prove that their preferences are 'better', most of the time. Anarchy is the only system that can be morally justified. And funnily enough, the very theoretical premises of 'western' 'liberal' 'democracies' are anarchistic. 'Liberal' 'democracies' pretend to be 'representative' governments based on the 'consent of the governed'. "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed," The 'religious' language is bullshit - the doctrine of natural rights is actually that, natural (rational), not based on any 'supernatural' scam. And what does 'consent' mean, exactly? It means choice and the ability to accept or reject any proposition. So, since government is based on 'consent' it is perfectly OK to NOT consent to be 'governed' and thus live under 'anarchy'. Of course, the guy who wrote that 'declaration of independence' and his accomplices were incredibly sick pieces of shit who used libertarian political theory as facade for the 'foundation' of a literal slave society. Freedom is slavery. Good old Orwell wasn't just talking about the future... Anyway, anarchy is simply statist theory correctly applied.
Perhaps another thread though... but I am seriously interested in a more nuanced discussion than "those USG cunts" ;)
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