On 2020-11-15 23:18, Karl wrote:
To restate: when you're getting hurt, it's not anarchy. That's my community's viewpoint.
Nuts. People will hurt people. For anarchy to work, the bad people have to be hurt back considerably worse. This is feasible because good people can cooperate better than bad people, but for really large scale cooperation for really large scale violence, you need a commander in chief, a sovereign, and King, and *then* it is not anarchy. War is the father of us all. So, large scale cooperation on an anarchic internet needs effective means for excluding bad people - fortunately direct violence is difficult over the internet, which gives the edge to forms of cooperation that do not require an alarmingly entrenched sovereign.